Food Politics

Foodborne illnesses take a back seat to other issues at Kennedy’s meeting with food leaders

After a meeting with representatives from some of the country’s mega food producers, the Secretary of Health and Human Services said he focused on food safety. However, Robert F.

By Coral Beach

/ 12 Mar 2025

Foodborne illnesses take a back seat to other issues at Kennedy’s meeting with food leaders

EU Commission highlights controls and standards in food vision

The European Commission has highlighted the role of food safety in its roadmap for the future of farming and food. The EU Commission promised to start taking steps in 2025

By Joe Whitworth

/ 21 Feb 2025

EU Commission highlights controls and standards in food vision

Administration terminating employees at FDA and CDC; some food safety jobs likely impacted

Notice of layoffs went into effect this past weekend for employees at the Food and Drug Administration. Neither the FDA nor the Trump administration have released news about the layoffs,

By News Desk

/ 18 Feb 2025

Administration terminating employees at FDA and CDC; some food safety jobs likely impacted

Group urges review of body that developed produce standard

An industry group has called for a review of a body that is responsible for developing food policy in Australia. Jolyon Burnett, chair of the NFF Horticulture Council, has written

By News Desk

/ 14 Feb 2025

Group urges review of body that developed produce standard

Committee hears about issues with meat inspections at UK border

Politicians have called for funding to be maintained for meat inspections after hearing evidence on the scale of products being seized at the border. The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

By Joe Whitworth

/ 13 Feb 2025

Committee hears about issues with meat inspections at UK border

Poultry line speed changes could be in the wind for the new administration

One USDA program is going down to the wire with changes. The Food Service and inspection Service of the USDA has announced that it is extending its modified poultry line

By Dan Flynn

/ 15 Jan 2025

Poultry line speed changes could be in the wind for the new administration

Continuing Resolution will extend the Farm Bill into late 2025

Congress rolled out the $31 billion disaster package on Tuesday, which includes a one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill through September 2025. Since the Farm Bill, with its numerous

By Dan Flynn

/ 19 Dec 2024

Continuing Resolution will extend the Farm Bill into late 2025

Texas judge lifts paperwork burden for now that would impact food sector

Thousands of food-producing farms and ranches are off the hook from a federal bureaucracy with powers to send them to jail. This means that, at the moment, nobody has to

By Dan Flynn

/ 10 Dec 2024

Texas judge lifts paperwork burden for now that would impact food sector

Farm Bill will likely be held over to 2025

Sen. Chuck Grassley met with Iowa media and said that there is no chance that an entirely new Farm Bill will be approved before the 118th Congress ends in just

By Dan Flynn

/ 6 Dec 2024

Farm Bill will likely be held over to 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Time to bring back the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) to help Make Produce Safe Again (MPSA)

So as Food Safety News Editor, Dan Flynn, said in 2012, let us thank United Fresh Produce Association for: – Killing the nation’s only (real) produce surveillance program (it was

By Bill Marler

/ 30 Nov 2024

Publisher’s Platform: Time to bring back the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) to help Make Produce Safe Again (MPSA)

Who is going to replace who is essential to food safety

It’s who replaces who season in Washington D.C. It happens whenever one party beats the other in presidential elections. Food safety advocates are watching these changes with rapt

By Dan Flynn

/ 26 Nov 2024

Who is going to replace who is essential to food safety

A late Food Security Act entry from the retiring Chairwoman Stabenow

U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, introduced the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act on Nov. 18. It includes $39 billion in new resources

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Nov 2024

A late Food Security Act entry from the retiring Chairwoman Stabenow

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Food Politics

Foodborne illnesses take a back seat to other issues at Kennedy’s meeting with food leaders

EU Commission highlights controls and standards in food vision

Administration terminating employees at FDA and CDC; some food safety jobs likely impacted

Group urges review of body that developed produce standard

Committee hears about issues with meat inspections at UK border

Poultry line speed changes could be in the wind for the new administration

Continuing Resolution will extend the Farm Bill into late 2025

Texas judge lifts paperwork burden for now that would impact food sector

Farm Bill will likely be held over to 2025

Publisher’s Platform: Time to bring back the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) to help Make Produce Safe Again (MPSA)

Who is going to replace who is essential to food safety

A late Food Security Act entry from the retiring Chairwoman Stabenow

Your Support Protects Public Health