Food Safety News, citing the Hagstrom Report newsletter, said on Jan. 14 that the Obama Administration may be considering a plan to merge the functions of food safety as currently performed at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Department of Health and Human…
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Editor’s note: If you had a magic wand, how would you conjure up sustainable ways to make the food supply safe? We asked several people to consider the possibilities. Here is another response, from Dr. Richard Raymond, former Undersecretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
If…
Any time something big happens, there are ramifications. With the President’s signature this week, the biggest shake up in food safety in 70 years became reality.
But that reality includes the fact that the country’s debt just went over the $14 trillion mark and the trajectory continues skyward. Food safety…
“Dual Jurisdiction,” for those who may not know, generally describes a processing plant where more than one product line is being produced, and some of the facility’s products fall under the Department of Health and Human Service’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agency for regulation, and some are regulated by…
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