With the Friday release of the two first food safety rules, which were mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act signed into law by President Obama two years ago, came a flood of responses
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FSMA Approaches Two-Year Anniversary as Components Languish
January 4, 2011 was a landmark day for food safety advocates nationwide. It was the day President Obama signed into law the first major piece of federal legislation concerning food safety since 1938: the 2011…
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Letter From The Editor: FDA “Hereby Suspends”
It was one week short of 700 days when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dropped the hammer on the economy of Portales, NM. It was that long between Jan. 11, 2011, the day…
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Obama Administration: Food Safety Rules Coming ASAP
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is still working “expeditiously” to implement major portions of the Food Safety Modernization Act, legislation that has largely sat in budgetary limbo since President Obama signed…
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Food Facility Registration Under FSMA Delayed
The Food Safety Modernization Act’s biennial food facility registration requirement was intended to go into effect Oct. 1, 2012; however since that day a yellow box has been posted on the U.S. Food and Drug…
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OMB Report Asks Congress to Avoid Sequestration
The sequestration slated to take effect at the first of the year is “bad policy,” and Congress should avoid it by taking action on deficit reduction, says a recent analysis by the White House Office…
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So Who Is The E. coli Club Now, Nancy?
Memo to Nancy Pelosi: The next E. coli Club meeting will be held at the Office of Management and Budget. Remember the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)? Obama signed the legislation into law in January…
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Obama Administration Sued for Delay of FSMA Implementation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the White House Office of Management and Budget were sued this week for the months-long delay in implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act. President Obama signed FSMA into…
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Pew: Cantaloupe Outbreak Underscores Need for FSMA
The deadly Salmonella outbreak linked to Indiana-grown cantaloupe in 20 states is the latest in a series of foodborne illness crises that underscore the need to implement rules in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA),…
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FSMA – Don’t Shoot the Messengers – But Listen to Them
There were several FDA representatives on the agenda at the recent meeting of the International Association of Food Protection conference in Providence, RI. You have to have sympathy for them — who could have envisioned…
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