Two low-acid canned food facilities in Spain, inspected in February by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have recently received warning letters about their operations.
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Americans have an appetite for imported seafood. The U.S. consumed 2.395 billion pounds of foreign seafood last year. That was about 85 percent of the market.
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Food & Water Watch, a Washington, DC-based consumer group, yesterday called on the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate imported beef products from Brazil that
A California importer who allegedly tried to re-import products previously refused by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may get off with a warning, specifically a warning letter.
The attempt
Cooked beef products from one source in Brazil have been stopped at the border because they contain too much of a broad-spectrum antiparasitic used as a de-worming agent in animals.
Canadians are wondering if meat from the United States is safe after learning 70 truckloads have evaded border inspections since January. That’s how many truckloads the Windsor Star newspaper
America’s domestic catfish industry usually is not happy with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) over the regulation of foreign fish imports, but it will probably like
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday announced the creation of the Import Safety Commercial Targeting and Analysis Center (CTAC). The center will serve as a new arm
This week’s Chemical & Engineering News, published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for chemists and engineers, is featuring food safety as both an important public health threat and
Chinese officials announced that two milk producers were executed yesterday for their role in last year’s nationwide melamine milk contamination scandal, which killed six infants and sickened over 300,