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FDA puts its mandatory recall cards on the table — face up

By Coral Beach on November 6, 2018

Almost eight years after gaining statutory power to mandate food recalls, the FDA is officially publishing information to help industry understand when the agency will use its authority.

In a guidance document scheduled for publication…
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FDA drops new produce guidance and wants to talk about it

By Dan Flynn on October 25, 2018

Call it a little lite winter reading for America’s produce growers and processors.

It’s the 152 pages of non-binding draft guidance titled “Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human …
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Straightforward, step-by-step recalls are best for everyone

By Sharon Natanblut on May 20, 2018

One month after leaving FDA, I was asked to advise a company that was about to undergo a food recall for the first time.   

In my tenure at the Food and Drug Administration, leading communications…
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Sessions clears way for food companies to ignore FDA guidance

By Dan Flynn on February 13, 2018

Those guidance documents the Food and Drug Administration hands out to food manufacturers and others don’t mean as much as they once did. The Department of Justice has changed its policy so government lawyers will…
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Do FDA ‘guidance’ documents skirt the regulatory process?

By Dan Flynn on December 12, 2017

The Food and Drug Administration’s penchant for “guidance” documents as opposed to formal rulemaking needs to end, according to a business-oriented public interest legal foundation.

“FDA’s turn away from notice-and-comment rulemaking has an obvious motive:…
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FDA commissioner issues new guidance for menu labeling

By News Desk on November 9, 2017

Ahead of the effective date for those new, long-awaited menu labeling regulations, which is May 7, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is out with some non-binding “guidance” to help with implementation. FDA Commissioner…
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EU to set acrylamide benchmarks in 2018: Don’t burn the toast

By Dan Flynn on July 27, 2017

The European Union and the United States are taking different approaches to a fairly recently discovered chemical that’s been in food as long as men and women have been cooking with fire.

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Beach Beat: Sprout, sprout, let it all out — comment now

By Coral Beach on January 22, 2017

Fresh, raw sprouts are among the most notorious of offenders in terms of foodborne illness outbreaks with almost 2,500 confirmed victims, including three deaths, in the past 20 years in the U.S. alone.

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FDA updates draft guidance for dietary supplement industry

By U.S. Food and Drug Administration on August 13, 2016

Editor’s Note: This was originally published by the FDA on Aug. 11, 2016. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a revised draft guidance to improve dietary supplement companies’ new dietary ingredient (NDI) premarket…
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