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By Bryan Hitchcock
At the request of U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf, the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA (FDA Foundation) launched an external evaluation of the FDA’s Human
Continue Reading A new day: IFT weighs in on the future of the FDAThis 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
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How food safety is best organized in a country this big and this populous is the question we should be asking. Instead during the past confusing year, we’ve come to focus only
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own
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Dr. Califf, I have deep admiration for your past and ongoing public service. The hard work of trying to protect the food and drug supply in the United States is a difficult
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Putting the F — Food — back into the FDA
Editor’s note: This column and profiles of the 16 food safety champions (four not pictured above) was originally published by Quality Assurance magazine. It is reprinted here with permission. To read profiles of the individual
Continue Reading 30 years of food safety standouts
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
Editor’s note: The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation of Abbott Nutrition, which last year was closed for several months because of food safety issues at its infant formula production plant in
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Context for criminal prosecutions in food safety cases
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By Sharon Lindan Mayl
The Food and Drug Administration has issued many of its foundational rules in the 12 years since the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was passed, but the agency’s
Continue Reading FDA’s Traceability Rule: What are the next steps for the agency and industry
This is R-CALF USA’s weekly opinion/commentary that describes a letter to Congress sent by 50 diverse organizations and provides a list of reasons MCOOL is valuable to Americans. It is available in three formats: written,
Continue Reading 2023 is the year for MCOOL
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By Jane M. Caldwell
Portions of this article were originally published in Food Technology magazine.
This session the Missouri General Assembly will consider whether the sale of raw milk should be legal
Continue Reading Raw milk is dangerous; opposition to Missouri bills is necessary for safety