The Food and Drug Administration continues to play it close to the vest regarding questions about the Cronobacter outbreak linked to infant formula, but the agency is beginning to think about preventive action to help
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2014 FDA Food Safety Challenge
Beach Beat: Is food safety essential to public safety? Good question
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Tomorrow some of the fuzzy math related to the government’s operational status will come into clear focus for many so called non-essential federal employees when they don’t get paid.
Nuances of federal funding mean…
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U.S. eggs linked to Salmonella outbreak were also sent overseas
Shell eggs from an Indiana farm that have been recalled in the United States because a Salmonella outbreak were also shipped to several other countries.
Rose Acre Farms of Seymour, IN, recalled 207 million eggs…
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FSMA Readiness: Accountability Starts at the Top, Just Like Sarbanes-Oxley
As enforcement time nears for the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), experts such as Repositrak’s Randy Fields are being heard making comparisons between FSMA and the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The first major revamp of…
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FDA’s 2014 Food Safety Challenge: Salmonella in Fresh Produce
Even with one of the safest food supplies in the world, 1 in 6 Americans is sickened by foodborne illness each year, resulting in thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in health care costs.
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