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FDA updates food safety standards for food facilities that were first issued in 2007

By News Desk on November 9, 2022

The Food and Drug Administration has issued revised food safety standards for state regulatory programs that oversee food facilities that manufacture, process, pack or hold foods.

These regulatory program standards, known as the Manufactured Food…

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Food safety part of the FAO’s COVID-19 response efforts

By Joe Whitworth on September 16, 2020

Food safety standards and trade is one of seven areas in the Food and Agriculture Organization’s COVID-19 response and recovery program.

The United Nations’ agency is calling for $1.2 billion in initial investment to support…
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‘Tangible benefits’ from standards and testing include fewer illnesses

By Guest Contributor on December 2, 2019
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Editor’s note: This interview was originally published by the Pew Charitable Trusts and is reprinted here with permission.


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Meat and poultry safety regulations should reflect latest science: 

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Scotland Going Independent On Food Safety

By Dan Flynn on June 29, 2012

It’s not really going down like the plot of “Braveheart,” but the coming 2014 on Scottish Independence is already having large ramifications on food safety regulation in the United Kingdom. The Scottish Government is pulling…
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India to Implement Standards for Street Food

By News Desk on June 26, 2012

For the first time, street food vendors in India will soon be required to meet a set of sanitation regulations, announced the government Tuesday. Street food is a popular option in India because it’s convenient…
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GAO Reports on USDA Contracts for School Meals

By Helena Bottemiller on May 6, 2011

The Government Accountability Office urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to strengthen its oversight of the safety of food purchased for the federal school meal program in a report released this week. Among the top…

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It's Time to Move on non-O157:H7 STECs

By Dr. Richard Raymond on May 2, 2011

Editor’s Note: This opinion piece was written by Carol L. Tucker-Foreman and Richard A. Raymond, M.D. [1]


It’s Time to Move the Needle on non-O157:H7 STECs

The massive 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli…

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USDA Unveils New School Lunch Standards

By Helena Bottemiller on January 14, 2011

Fat and salt-laden school food beware.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday unveiled proposed nutritional standards for meals served through the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, the first major upgrade to nutritional requirements…

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