Delaware dairy farms will soon be able to get licenses to sell unpasteurized, raw milk.

The state’s regulations for the program are set to be released March 1, Agriculture Secretary Don Clifton told lawmakers in a Tuesday budget hearing. Following a public hearing on the regulation, the permitting process might

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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. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are

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Opinion

Authors: Angela Spivey, Andrew Phillips, and Alan Pryor 

It may come off as a truism that food safety is the “most central consumer safety and legal compliance issue” facing a food and beverage company. Yet the Delaware Supreme Court’s decision in Marchand v. Barnhill—a shareholder derivative suit that
Continue Reading The Blue Bell ice cream Listeria outbreak and its fallout

State legislatures remain in session from Alabama to Wyoming, with food safety mostly getting only a light touch from lawmakers who seem largely focused on budgets and education in this non-election year. In Alabama, where a new cottage food bill took effect last June 1, Extension services are getting
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