In response to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the FDA says the biggest stumbling block to conducting inspections of food facilities is understaffing.
The Food and Drug Administration hasn’t met targets for inspections of domestic and foreign food facilities since 2018, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Continue Reading Government Accountability Office finds problems with FDA inspection rates
A decade of inspections at J.M. Smucker Company’s production facility in Lexington, KY, leaves questions about how Salmonella found its way into products and spread to consumers.
This May, the outbreak strain of Salmonella Senftenberg was found in the J.M. Smucker Company’s production facility in Lexington, KY.
On July 27
Continue Reading A look at over 10 years of Smucker’s Kentucky facility’s inspections
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Editor’s note: This column was originally published in eFoodAlert and is republished here with the author’s permission.
Between Sept. 1, 2019, and Sept. 20, 2021, Abbott Nutrition received 17 consumer complaints regarding multiple Similac powdered infant formula products.
Fifteen of the complaints related to infants testing
The Dollar General Corporation’s “dollar stores” are sometimes used by researchers as a poverty indicator and this year a corner of those more than 18,000 locations in the continental United States were called out for rodents and other sanitation problems. And a federal grand jury has joined these investigations.
Dollar
Continue Reading Federal subpoena follows inspections after warning and recall at ‘dollar stores’
Editor’s note: Following is a letter signed by a coalition of organizations and sent to Janet Woodcock, M.D., FDA Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs.
Dear Dr. Woodcock,
The undersigned organizations, representing the food industry, consumers, and state and local food safety regulators, write to express our support for
Continue Reading Organizations tell FDA they want it to continue with inspection mandate
Editor’s note: In part four of this four-part series with SafetyChain Software, Food Safety News is exploring how food firms can become resilient in the face of 2021’s new challenges, and how resilience will be needed in anticipating government oversight.
Dr. David Acheson, CEO and president of The
Continue Reading Resilience in food safety for 2021: Anticipating government oversight
A few weeks ago many government agencies announced they would be following public health recommendations and have non-essential employees stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic. Among the staff activities and services suspended by the FDA were certain random tests of food and inspections of domestic and foreign food
Continue Reading Beach Beat: FDA posts less than half the number of food recalls during pandemic
The Food and Drug Administration found multiple sanitation issues during a 2016 inspection of the Caito Foods fresh produce facility that prepared pre-cut melon products currently implicated in a Salmonella outbreak.
According to the Indianapolis company’s website, Caito specializes in fresh produce distribution and fresh food processing, selling to to
Continue Reading Caito Foods sanitation problems extend back to at least 2016
Food standard violations at 874 facilities around the country in FY 2018 fell into one of five categories, according to a company that helps other businesses with FDA compliance. Registrar Corp. says the latest round of “Inspection Observation Data” from FDA shows a variety of food safety issues.
But first,
Continue Reading Report details most common violations at FDA-regulated food facilities
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part opinion piece. To read part one, please click here.
In the previous article, I wrote about the decades-old public health problem of poultry-borne salmonellosis. This article will propose declaring the virulent strains that are pathogenic to humans as adulterants
Continue Reading Reality of our world: Money trumps altruism in the quest for safer poultry
