USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the State of Vermont have reached an agreement that expands business opportunities for state-inspected meat and poultry business in the Green Mountain State. FSIS and Vermont have
Continue Reading USDA and Vermont reach Cooperative Interstate Shipment (CIS) agreement
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 after they are sent.
Continue Reading Three Californian firms are given warnings because of lack of FSVPs
The European Commission has published draft legislation that includes food safety culture.
A revision of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 on food hygiene also covers allergen management, and redistribution of food.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is
Continue Reading EU plans to include food safety culture in regulation
A Federal Grand Jury in the Southern District of Mississippi has indicted four managers or supervisors or human resource officers stemming from the raid last August that saw 680 illegal alien employees detained. The indictments
Continue Reading First indictments of poultry managers stemming from last year’s big poultry raid
When there are Star Trek replicators, what are they going to call the meat, poultry, or seafood products that come out of them? Steaks and chops and chicken breasts from the replicators will be grown
Continue Reading FDA/USDA say they are making progress on labeling cell-made food
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing a voluntary phase-out of certain types of grease-proofing agents on paper and paperboard food packaging. This phase-out comes after an FDA post-market scientific review and analysis from
Continue Reading Voluntary phase-out by industry of certain PFAS used in food packaging
The Food and Drug Administration has announced the availability of a final guidance for industry entitled “Inorganic Arsenic in Rice Cereals for Infants: Action Level.”
“This guidance finalizes FDA’s action level for inorganic arsenic
Continue Reading FDA announces limit on inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereals
Because of dangers associated with the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s annual meeting of the International Association for Food Protection is being converted to a virtual event.
Organizers specifically said they based their decision on the
Continue Reading International Association for Food Protection cancels live event; goes virtual
New York consumers, who’ve been constricted more than most during the COVID-19 era, are getting a reward. The New York General Assembly has passed and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has signed legislation authorizing the manufacture
Continue Reading Ice cream and frozen desserts laced with hard liquor approved by NY’s Gov. Cuomo
Line speeds for those with waivers from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service don’t increase the speeds all that much, but the issue has reached celebrity status thanks to COVID-19.
In the last month, however,
Continue Reading Line speeds become a cause in the coronovirus pandemic era
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 after they are sent.
Continue Reading Tailor Cut Produce Inc. still under FDA scrutiny after Salmonella outbreak
