The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recen...
After more than a decade of discussion, the Food and Drug Administration has published a final rule for certain agricultural water used in the production of produce. The new rule was mandated by ...
— OPINION — The spread of bird flu to dairy cows, along with the discovery of viral fragments in 20 percent of retail milk samples, has turned an outbreak that long vexed poultry farmers into...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/05/avian-flu-time-to-rethink-on-farm-surveillance/
Sometimes a bill about planting potatoes is simply about planting potatoes. In Colorado, where the Legislature ends on May 8, a bill concerning the planting of uncertified potatoes is already on ...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/05/potato-bill-unites-colorado-lawmakers/
The 56th Arizona Legislature adjourned Sine Die, which is about a bill that failed to pass. House Bill 2244 would have added meat labeling to Arizona’s Pure Food Control Act. It would have proh...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/05/arizona-food-bill-died-on-a-tie-vote/
USDA finalizes policy to protect consumers from Salmonella in raw breaded stuffed chicken products — OPINION — Food Safety, like politics, is the art of the possible. Sure, it would ...
Before Brazil Police kicked off Operation Car Wash, Wesley and Joesley Batista were JBS S.A.’s principal shareholders. And they are again today. JBS S.A. is a Brazilian company that is the larg...
Avian flu stopped the legalization of raw milk in Colorado this year. Or at least that’s why direct sales of unpasteurized milk fall short of getting anywhere, with only a week left in the le...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/colorado-raw-milk-bill-laid-over-to-next-year/
The Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction as part of its enforcement activities. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months ...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/fda-warns-cleveland-seafood-firm-about-multiple-problems/
As of today, the USDA considers Salmonella an adulterant in raw, breaded, stuffed chicken products, making it illegal to sell them if they are contaminated with the pathogen. The decision has bee...
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has acknowledged two more petitions and assigned them for review. The first came in on Apr 9, 2024, and requests that FSIS amend all policies and r...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/two-more-petitions-submitted-to-fsis/
The USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) petition on behalf of Perdue Farms LLC filed March 16, 2023, has gained many comments. The petition requests that FSIS conduct rule-making to d...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/perdue-farm-petition-captures-many-comments/
The Illinois Senate has passed SB2637 over to the House. It would ban certain food additives. The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act would, if enacted by the House, ban foods containing entities from m...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/the-additive-ban-is-halfway-home-in-illinois/
New Zealand Food Safety has issued new import rules for frozen berries that aim to help keep citizens safe and improve processes at the border. Changes will come into effect on Aug. 1, and import...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/new-zealand-sets-revised-frozen-berry-import-rules/
Long definitions exist for the Farm Bill. Here are a couple: “In the United States, the farm bill is a comprehensive omnibus bill that is the federal government’s primary agricultural and f...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/the-trump-farm-bill-is-nearing-extinction/
The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recen...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/fda-steps-up-enforcement-on-imported-shrimp-mahimahi-papayas/
The Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction as part of its enforcement activities. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months ...
The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recen...
The latest posting on long-time persistent violative raw milk seller Amos Miller illustrates at least two costs of permitting litigants to abuse legal process: 1. It purports to allow illegal int...
— ANAYLSIS — Child labor and food fraud are food manufacturing activities that don’t bode well for food safety. Food fraud comes and goes, but child labor just continues to build, with the ...
The Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction as part of its enforcement activities. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months ...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/vietnamese-food-firm-warned-over-seafood-violations/
The Lancaster judge overseeing the Amos Miller civil trial case has decided not to explicitly restrict the Amish farmer’s out-of-state sales, saying he won’t hold the ambiguous nature of Penn...
The implementation of a new traceability rule is more than a year and a half away, and the FDA won’t start enforcing the requirements of the rule until 2027, but a former agency leader says com...
The FDA has released a report on an investigation into imported honey and the intentional adulteration of it for economic gains. The report from the Food and Drug Administration includes informat...
The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recen...
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture v. Amos and Rebecca Miller is advancing in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In the latest round of arguments, the attorneys for ...
https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/04/amos-millers-attorneys-put-forth-their-best-arguments/
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months...
The FDA commissioner is scheduled to testify at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability next week. Commissioner Robert Califf is the only witn...
The Colorado General Assembly has its own routines. One allows a bill to change its spots. Take SB24-026, for example. It was one of the first bills heard during the current legislative session ...
The Alliance for a Stronger FDA is hosting Center Directors and other FDA senior leaders to discuss their portion of the the president’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget request (documents; analysis). ...