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DNA Sequencing Helps FDA Project Combat Seafood Fraud

By Lydia Zuraw on July 14, 2015

In the 1990s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used proteins to identify seafood, but the profiling method could only match to a standard sample. They had to have frozen tissues from all of…
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GAO: FDA Not Keeping Pace With FSMA Foreign Inspection Mandate

By News Desk on March 3, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/stock-photography-detailed-world-map-image29681182The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to do more to ensure that its foreign offices are keeping food imported to the U.S. safe, says a report released Friday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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Louisiana Senator’s Bill Seeks to Enhance the Safety of Imported Seafood

By News Desk on January 27, 2015

U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) introduced a bill this past week that would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure the safety of imported seafood. According to the American Shrimp Processors Association…
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FDA’s Taylor Visits China to Strengthen Food Safety Ties

By James Andrews on November 13, 2014

Today, 15 percent of America’s food supply is imported from other countries, including 80 percent of seafood and 50 percent of fresh fruit. An increasing amount of that food is coming from China, a country…
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FDA Warns CA Seafood Importer for Failure to Meet HACCP Regulation

By News Desk on October 3, 2013

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning letter to Jin Han International, Inc., stating that the company is importing fish without processing them in accordance with seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control …
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FDA Moving Too Slowly to Promote Private Inspections

By Scott Rafferty on September 6, 2013

Congress told the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require importers, beginning no later than July 2012, to verify the safety of each shipment entering the U.S. Those who relied upon independent private inspections…
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How Did a Hepatitis A Virus Get Into Organic Berries?

By Michele Simon on June 13, 2013

The latest example of how even health-conscious eaters are not immune from foodborne illness outbreaks came last week with a recall of organic frozen berries contaminated with Hepatitis A. The products were sold under…
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FDA Releases Plan for Improving Safety of Imported Food

By News Desk on March 1, 2013

The federal Food and Drug Administration Thursday unveiled its plan for improving food safety in countries that export food to the United States. The document fulfills one of the mandates of the Food Safety Modernization…
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Catfish Industry Flounders Despite Congressional Support

By Andy Frame on February 20, 2013

Earlier this month Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran sent a letter to Rebecca Blank, the acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, asking that the Department “vigorously enforce the antidumping order against frozen fish fillets …
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FDA Names New Zealand First Food Safety System Comparable to US

By Helena Bottemiller on December 13, 2012

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday signed a “systems recognition” agreement with New Zealand – the agency’s first formal acknowledgement that a foreign country has a food safety system comparable to the U.S.
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