Those wishing to comment on draft guidance for industry on inorganic arsenic levels in rice cereals for infants have 14 more days to do so. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that, because of maintenance on the Federal eRulemaking portal, the comment deadline has been extended from July 5 to July 19. 
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Key FSMA Rules Continue to Languish at OMB, Months After Deadline
It’s been well over a year since the monumental Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law and so far implementation has been riddled with speed bumps, not to mention funding woes.
Four of the most critical rules that Congress mandated the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to write and put in place …
Top Food Safety Stories of 2011: No. 9
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act was the 9th most important food safety story in 2011. When Congress adopted the measure in 2010, it was the most important story. The new law remained important this year because of work underway on rule making and funding.
No sooner had President Obama signed the FSMA into law …
Animal Traceability Comment Period Extended
Procrastinators are getting an extra 30 days to get their comments in on the new animal traceability rule.
USDA published a notice Friday officially extending the comment period to Dec. 9, moving the deadline forward from the former Nov. 9 date.
About 250 comments have come in so far, and anyone just reading through them …
Second Go at Animal Disease Traceability Hits Bumps
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is experiencing a hailstorm of opposition to its new animal disease traceability system as the proposal reaches the halfway point in the comment period that ends November 9.
The replacement for the ill-fated National Animal Identification System, which was so unpopular with rural America that Congress cut its …