Danish authorities have found a quarter of companies don’t follow the rules when collecting or delivering food.
A Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Fødevarestyrelsen) control campaign from May to September 2021 looked at the transport
Continue Reading Danish control finds food transport violations
The Food and Drug Administration has extended the previously announced temporary changes to its inspectional activities to ensure the safety of its employees and those of the firms it regulates.
The reduction of inspections comes
Continue Reading FDA will continue scaled back inspections for foreign food through March
Until now, when it came to raw milk, the state of Alaska was looking out for the public health of its residents. An easy to find fact sheet on the state’s website by the state
Continue Reading Alaska says raw milk consumption a possible fatal risk but may make it legal
Two audits recently released by the European Commission’s health and safety agency have assessed the safety of milk and dairy products in Romania and Finland. Several problems were found.
The first remote DG Sante audit,
Continue Reading EU assesses dairy safety in Romania and Finland
During the past three months, from October to December 2021, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) Smuggling Interdiction and Trade Compliance (SITC) program seized and destroyed more than 1,900 pounds of prohibited pork,
Continue Reading APHIS smuggling unit finds prohibited pork in New York City
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as
Continue Reading Unsanitary conditions, undeclared colors, improper labeling spur action by FDA
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s job of keeping African Swine Fever out of the United States is not helped by stepped up and all too common meat smuggling.
Whether commingled in those
Continue Reading Meat smugglers are out to breach U.S. borders, endangering pork industry
Food safety expert George D. Lapsley is in line for the court’s appointment to sort out the mess known as the Amos Miller matter.
Assistant U.S. attorneys Gregory B. David and Gerald B. Sullivan proposed
Continue Reading Court will likely name food safety expert Lapsley to sort out the Amos Miller mess
Efforts to quantify the level of risk posed by food sold online are at an early stage, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom.
In a paper presented at the latest
Continue Reading FSA looking into risks from online food sales
Lithuanian authorities have stopped the sale of possibly unsafe meat, clamped down on fish traders and uncovered food supplement violations in the past month.
Officers at the State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) blocked the
Continue Reading Meat, fish and supplements on radar of Lithuanian officials
