The FDA introduced a revised Food Code featuring a number of essential changes at the end of last year. With jurisdiction over more than 25 percent of the U.S. economy, the FDA guarantees that the Food Code remains pertinent to a vast majority of Americans.
The Food Code embodies the
Continue Reading The FDA food code for 2023 and it’s significance for businesses
When it comes to the future of retail and new food businesses there is an overriding goal. Reduce the occurrence of foodborne illness risk factors.
That goal is guiding the work a coalition of government agencies and non-profit groups of food officials, according to Glenda Lewis of the Food and
Continue Reading Retail can’t move forward safely without Food Code and better communication
Sometimes it takes more than a sudden jolt to realize that something needs to be improved. And more times than not it takes some fine tuning, bolstered with a great deal of thought, time and persistence to get the necessary improvements into place.
And so it is with making rules
Continue Reading Food Code: Not just bigwigs brewing up a batch of new regs
Food safety has made it with the Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures. The NCSL is the independent authority on the legislative bodies that govern America’s states and territories.
With funding assistance from The Pew Charitable Trusts and NSF International, food safety has taken its place in the NCSL’s searchable
Continue Reading NCSL helps make sense out of a maze of state food safety laws
Changes to the food safety code the Anchorage Department of Health and Human Services wanted to begin enforcing in July are taking just a little longer than anticipated.
The first changes to the food safety regulations for Alaska’s largest city since 2010 are open for public comment until Sept. 22,
Continue Reading Local bar, restaurants oppose Anchorage food safety changes
In the wake of two foodborne illness outbreaks, Hawaii began a week of public hearings on revisions to its food code on Monday.
Also on Monday, state officials cleared a seaweed grower-shipper whose products were linked to one of the outbreaks to resume operations.
The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH)
Continue Reading Hawaii seeks to update food safety regs following outbreaks
Managers and employees at more than half of the delis in a recent study reported the retail operations are failing to meet U.S. Food Code specifications because meat slicers are not cleaned often enough. Meat slicing machines in retail delis are notorious for harboring Listeria bacteria, as well as contributing
Continue Reading Deli employees report meat slicers not cleaned often enough
The new Food Standards Code for Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) became fully effective on March 1. 
Steve McCutcheon, chief executive officer of FSANZ, said the new code more closely aligns with the food acts of Australian states and territories and New Zealand. There is no transition period between
Continue Reading New food code now in effect for Australia and New Zealand
Idaho activists have won their fight to “unchain the cupcake” gaining approval from two state legislative committees that agreed this month to define cottage foods and require such home cookin’ to be labeled when offered for sale. The OK from the Health and Welfare Committees in the Idaho House of
Continue Reading Idaho defines cottage foods; food safety unaddressed
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued supplemental information to the 2013 Food Code on Thursday. The modifications expand the duties of the Person in Charge in a food establishment. They will now include overseeing routine monitoring of food temperatures during hot and cold holding, expand and clarify the
Continue Reading FDA Releases Supplement to the 2013 Food Code
