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FDA Closer to Zero baby food lead

FDA puts focus on lead levels in baby food

By Dan Flynn on January 25, 2023

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced draft guidance for the industry on “action levels” for lead in processed foods that are intended for babies and children under two years old, for the purpose…

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FDA seeking comments on guidance for labeling foods that contain allergens

By Coral Beach on November 30, 2022

The FDA has issued two guidance documents about food allergen labeling requirements to help the food industry meet the need to list any significant food allergen on the labels of FDA-regulated foods.

The agency is…

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FDA completes Food for Animals Guidance as required by FSMA

By News Desk on July 7, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday finalized Guidance for Industry (GFI) #245: Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Food for Animals to help animal food facilities subject to the FDA Food Safety…

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FDA announces it won’t enforce certain aspects of some FSMA rules

By News Desk on March 15, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued guidance on its intent not to enforce certain provisions of five rules that implement the Food Safety Modernization Act.

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011…
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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It’s the 152 pages of non-binding draft guidance titled “Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Human …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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