Editor’s Note: FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf delivered remarks in June to the FDLI Annual Conference. Here are excerpts from his prepared remarks that addressed food safety.
“One issue that’s been front and center
Continue Reading Restructuring the Food Program at FDA
It’s that time of year when agency and department heads appear before Congressional committees to discuss their budget requests. For FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. that means justifying FDA’s 2023 food safety and nutrition
Continue Reading $76 million more for food safety sought by FDA Commissioner Califf
More money and reorganization are often offered as solutions when deficiencies turn up in government.
This time, food regulation by the Food and Drug Administration has come up short. In a lengthy report released on
Continue Reading Consumer groups, industry tell FDA Commissioner change is needed
The chairman of a U.S. House subcommittee has demanded that the FDA provide Congress with an explanation of why it took so long to deal with an ongoing outbreak linked to infant formula.
Democratic Rep.
Continue Reading Representative demands answers from FDA about outbreak linked to infant formula
Food safety in 2017 will be dependent on our “complicated bureaucracies” that exist to get through transitions and times of change. Both USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. Food and Drug
Continue Reading Storms and stability ahead for food safety efforts in 2017
New restaurant menu labeling requirements took effect Dec. 1 or maybe not.
Forty-eight hours ahead of that date, the Food and Drug Administration issued a notice “clarifying ” that Dec. 1 is now the “compliance”
Continue Reading Restaurant menu labeling took effect Dec. 1, and then it did not
