The Food and Drug Administration has published new information for businesses seeking guidance on how to label foods that include known allergens.
The new web page includes Frequently Asked Questions to be used as a resource for the Fifth Edition of the FDA’s Guidance for Industry titled “Questions and Answers
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The Food and Drug Administration will change its food safety policy as 2025 progresses. Monday’s latest is the FDA issued a notice in the Federal Register that determined 35 food contact notifications (FCNs) related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are no longer effective.
The FDA has determined that
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The FDA has released its final food safety guidance for producers of sprouts, a food that has been linked to several outbreaks in recent years.
The document details recommendations on how sprout operators can comply with the sprout portion of the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, which establishes science-based standards
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It’s been 10 years in the making, but the FDA has announced final guidance on the levels of arsenic in apple juice, seen as crucial for children’s safety.
The new guidance sets the level at 10 parts per billion (ppb), the same as the agency’s draft guidance issued in 2013.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced draft guidance for the industry on “action levels” for lead in processed foods that are intended for babies and children under two years old, for the purpose of reducing potential health effects in this vulnerable population from dietary exposure to lead.
According
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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 seeking public and industry comments on the guidance. Directions on how to comment are below.
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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 Modernization Act (FSMA) Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for animal food requirements develop a
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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 grants the FDA more authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested, and processed.
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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 in the Federal Register today, the Food and Drug Administration uses a question-answer format to
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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 Consumption: Guidance for Industry,” which is paired with the 71-page “Guide to Minimize Food
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