Beginning today, the FDA is accepting comments on proposed guidance designed to improve the safety of fresh sprouts, which have been responsible for at least 50 outbreaks in the past two decades.
The proposed guidance
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FAO and WHO find low risk of histamine poisoning from salmonids
The United Nations’ FAO and the World Health Organization have found that the risk of histamine development in fish of the Salmonidae family is unlikely to reach the levels needed to cause food poisoning.
The
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Post-Brexit food safety under scrutiny by CIEH and FRC
Food standards and safety after the United Kingdom exits the European Union next year have been put under the spotlight again by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and Food Research Collaboration.
The Chartered Institute
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Codex transfer was not held up for lack of talk about it
In most months, industry and consumer representatives, each get one meeting with USDA’s top brass at the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
But in September, acting FSIS Administrator Paul Kiecker and temporary Deputy Under
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Food safety reprieve: Ag secretary pauses plan to move Codex
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, for the moment, has backed off his controversial plan to transfer the U.S. Codex Office, which works on international food standards, from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to a
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Opponents say USDA reorganization has multiple problems
Critics are continuing to noodle Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s plan to reorganize his large department, finding things they don’t like about it. Perdue’s desire to move U.S.
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Moving Codex out of FSIS will boost trade, not food safety
Editor’s note: This guest opinion column by Dr. Richard Raymond was originally publish on MeatingPlace.com and is republished here with permission.
The U.S. Codex Office is moving from USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
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WGS could be WMD in global battle against foodborne illness
Editor’s note: This column by FDA’s Steven Musser and Eric L. Stevens was originally published on the agency’s blog.
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People’s Republic of China adopts a new 5-year food safety plan
The full text of the 13th Five-year Plan for Food Safety by China’s State Council, issued earlier this month, is available in Chinese.
The document examines the status of food safety in China, acknowledging that
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Smithfield Sale Raises New Questions About the Future of Ractopamine
The sale of Smithfield Foods, the United States’ largest pork producer, to Shuanghui International, China’s largest meat company, raises new questions about the future of ractopamine, a controversial growth-promoting drug that is widely used in
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FDA Petitioned to Lower Ractopamine Limits for Meat, Review Health Impacts
Animal rights and food safety groups are petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to immediately lower the allowed residue limits for ractopamine — a controversial drug used to boost growth and leanness in meat
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