FDA Commissioner Robert Califf

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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 Administration (FDA)  are sure to be  taking many “business as usual” actions in January.

Confucius taught the Ancient Chinese bureaucracies…

menucalarories_406x250New 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” date for the regulations, not May 5, 2017, as was set by FDA in May 2016.

In no time, FDA…