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Editor’s note: The Consumer Brands Association and Consumer Reports were featured in The Hill Opinion on Feb. 22 for sounding the alarm on FDA’s refusal to appoint a fully empowered deputy commissioner for foods
Continue Reading Consumer Brands and Consumer Reports demand action from FDA Commissioner
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By Bonnie Fernandez-Fenaroli
The Center for Produce Safety (CPS) was formed as a public-private partnership, inviting all produce safety stakeholders – industry, research institutions, and regulatory and public health agencies – to engage
Continue Reading Produce silos are starting to crumble
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Editor’s note: A coalition of organizations sent this letter to Xavier Becerra, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Dear Secretary Becerra,
We write to express our concern
Continue Reading Coalition speaks out against luke warm plan for proposed FDA reorganizationThis letter is in reference to a recent Letter from the Editor in Food Safety News (“An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own”), dated
Continue Reading Letter to the Editor: We don’t need an upheaval of USDA and FDA to make a single food safety unit
By Adrienne Cooper
Senior Events Manager, Food Safety Summit
The 2023 Food Safety Summit, the premiere event for thousands of food safety professionals, has announced five pre-event certificate courses to be offered on Monday, May
Continue Reading Five certification courses to be offered at Food Safety Summit in May
By Wendelyn Jones
Significant resources have been invested in public health campaigns to reduce sodium intake to improve health, but dietary intake remains high, threatening safe eating habits.
Guidance from public health authorities indicates we
Continue Reading Is changing ingredients the best option to maintain safety and combat salty diets?
Editor’s note: Following is a letter sent by Consumer Reports and a coalition of concerned entities (see list below) regarding the leadership at the Food and Drug Administration in reference to the recent Reagan-Udall Foundation
Continue Reading Consumer groups call on FDA Commissioner to restore teeth to agency’s leadership
By Jeff Havens
Editor’s note: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, mapped and explored the Louisiana Purchase and areas West from 1804 to 1806, including the area from the Missouri River
Continue Reading Loco ‘local’ food law and Lewis and Clark
“Water poses a significant food safety risk in dry and low moisture food processing environments,” says Nathan Mirdamadi, a Senior Food Safety Specialist with Commercial Food Sanitation. That makes cleaning and sanitizing these areas challenging
Continue Reading When water is the enemy; sanitizing in dry food processing environments
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By Joe Reardon, Senior Director of Food Safety Programs, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) and the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), along with FMI
Continue Reading Risk-based science should drive food safety policy