Two food agencies in the United Kingdom have voiced their concern about the lack of vets and the potential impact on the meat sector.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and
The Food and Drug Administration is requesting 7.4 percent more for its budget for fiscal year 2025 than it received for the current year, which began on Oct. 1,
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to create a network to help countries with surveillance of foodborne diseases.
The first meeting of the WHO Alliance for Food Safety is scheduled
The latest data showing levels of residues from veterinary drugs and other substances in animals and animal-derived food in 2022 in Europe has been published.
The European Food Safety Authority
The reorganization of the Food and Drug Administration’s human foods programs was urgently needed and a long-time coming. The full plan still needs to go through review by Office
The European Commission’s health and safety unit has published two reports looking at controls of fishery products in Spain and Saudi Arabia.
An audit in Spain in February and
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is seeking comments on guidance covering Mechanically Separated Meat (MSM).
New guidance was developed for food businesses following a series of court judgments on the
Fruit and vegetables were the top product category discussed by European countries about fraud suspicions in January.
Data comes from the first of monthly reports on potential, but not confirmed,
According to a report, the number of European Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) notifications went up in 2023.
Overall, 1,993 SPS notifications were submitted by World Trade Organization (WTO) members.
Kicking deadlines down the road over government shutdowns is much like those punt kicks in the NFL playoffs. They don’t generally win the game, but the skill involved is
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has released its outbreak report for fiscal year 2023 and detailed the six investigations carried out during that time.
The report covers
— COMMENTARY —
By Steven Grossman, executive director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA
On Sept. 29, 2023, I fell asleep — certain that the government would shutdown at midnight the next