The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) has joined forces with North Carolina State University and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) to introduce a groundbreaking food safety educational initiative.
The “Introduction to Public Health Food Inspections” course, the first of its kind
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By Joe Reardon, Senior Director of Food Safety Programs, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) and the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), along with FMI – The Food Industry Association (FMI); the National Restaurant Association (NRA); and the National Association
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Food safety is one of 10 specific policy areas that the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture wants to be addressed in the next federal Farm Bill, which must be finished by 2023. At its Winter Policy Conference, NASDA named these focus areas for Farm Bill 2023, in alphabetical
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The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture has named Joe Reardon as director of food safety programs.
Reardon will lead NASDA’s cooperative agreements and activities with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, working to ensure consumers in the United States continue to enjoy the safest and healthiest food supply
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By Amanda Culp, NASDA
1. Ensuring 46 million food and agriculture workers remain essential so that we can continue to feed America.
As more states adopt shelter-in-place measures to protect our communities, state departments of agriculture are working to ensure that food and agriculture workers can still get to
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One of the last vestiges of bipartisanship in Congress began delivering its baby Tuesday. House and Senate agricultural conferees finally agreed on the 2018 Farm Bill, and by late afternoon it was sailing through the U.S. Senate on an 87-13 vote.
There is precious little in the 807-page bill, with
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb talked about compliance with new food regulations at the Annual Meeting of the influential National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) in New Orleans.
Compliance deadlines are on the minds of those in American agriculture as 2018 approaches, making Gottlieb’s
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