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FDA Has Not Met Food Inspection Targets Since 2018, GAO Report Finds

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to strengthen its inspection efforts to safeguard the nations food supply, according to a recent report published by the U.S. FDA says it needs more inspectors to meet its targets. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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A tragedy across the border – The FDA isn’t ready for the next E. coli outbreak

Bill Marler

JANUARY 24, 2020

coli bacteria during a visit to California in 2018. For much of 2018, Nathan Parker and his wife, Karla Terry, plotted their road trip from this Vancouver suburb down the Oregon coast to their final destination: Disneyland. Still, it should have been the wake-up call that mobilized the government to defeat this threat to food safety.

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Legislation would give the FDA, and CDC power to collect samples from animal farms during outbreaks

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A senator and representative have introduced legislation that would give the FDA and CDC authority to enter and collect samples at feedlots during foodborne illness outbreaks. For example, during a 2018 romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak investigation, the FDA traced the strain of outbreak E. That cannot stand.”

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Petition for some USDA-FDA dual work on eggs is denied

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NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The National Chicken Council had to wait for 5 and a half years to learn that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service had denied a request about using surplus broiler eggs. The NCC petitioned FSIS on May 8, 2018, requesting that the USDA agency coordinate with the U.S. As you may be aware, in 2009, the FDA published a final rule.

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Technology in the Food Chain: Insights from the IFT 2023 Traceability Challenge Report

Food Safety Tech

AUGUST 28, 2023

I n a report released in May of 2023, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) offered an encouraging and attainable outlook for cooperative and effective functionality throughout the global food supply chain. Traceability Challenges in a Global Food Supply Chain Traceability is a common goal in all industries.

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Governments around the world remain invested in alternative proteins

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JULY 15, 2024

Proof points: The European Union earmarked €50 million ($54 million) to advance the development and scaling-up of food from microorganisms. This covers algae and precision fermentation capacity, with the latter aiming “to improve the sustainability, efficiency, and resilience of the European food supply chain.”

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Cadmium Fast Facts

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

While cadmium may be detected in some plant-based foods, exposure remains extremely low. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the lead U.S. Agency for protecting the public from overexposure to cadmium in food. The FDA has a temporary intake guideline of 0.210.36 The FDA is the lead U.S.

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2023 outlook: The state of the plant-based meat category

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APRIL 11, 2023

Yet the environmental benefits , production efficiencies at scale, and minimized supply chain vulnerabilities compared to the animal agriculture industry make plant-based foods a powerful tool in building a stable food supply. The plant-based industry is still small relative to the total food industry.

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My 5 Minutes with the FDA

Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As one administration aptly said, it is past time to address the “fragmented and illogical division of federal oversight” of food safety. . food supply as it is now “governed by a highly complex system stemming from at least 30 federal laws that are administered by 16 federal agencies.”. The spinach E. Would it be good enough?

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Gift a Plate and Ambient Restaurant Sounds Playlist

Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 5, 2020

The company’s vertical integration and technology stack have enabled them to accommodate changing buyer behavior as food supply chains shifted from a focus on commercial operations to consumer homes." Deliverect, founded in 2018, has processed more than 3.5 subsidiary in Odessa, FL. “Jean Niel Inc.

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The American people deserve a single food safety agency

Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In 2017, the Trump administration proposed re-organizing the oversight of food safety regulatory activities into one agency, the Federal Food Safety Agency, to be housed within USDA. Similarly, the Obama administration also proposed a single food safety agency, but it suggested that it reside within FDA.

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POLITICO: Victims blame FDA for food-recall failures

Bill Marler

JANUARY 25, 2020

Healthy SoyNut Butter case — which officials at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have hailed as an improvement over past failures — was nonetheless emblematic of persistent weaknesses in the nation’s food-safety system, some of which haven’t been corrected for two years after being flagged by the agency’s inspector general.

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Dysfunction in Congress could put federal food safety programs at risk

Food Safety News

OCTOBER 15, 2023

To cross this one off the list, Congress has to pass some combination of Appropriations Bills (there are 12) and Continuing Resolutions or CRs Senate Appropriations, which is not held up by the Speaker contest, today is scheduled to resume consideration of the so-called AG/FDA Minibus. 1, the 2018 Farm Bill also expired. food supply.

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What happens to food safety during the predicted government shutdown?

Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Shutdown Sunday will happen, which means federal food safety programs will cease normal operations and go into contingency modes. The FDA regulates about 80 percent of the U.S. food supply. Former FDA Deputy Commissioner Frank Yiannas warns that a government shutdown jeopardizes food safety.

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January/February 2021 Legal Update

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

FDA Announces 2024 Compliance Date for Food Labeling Regulations : On January 4, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would set January 1, 2024 as the uniform compliance date for final food labeling regulations that are issued in calendar years 2021 and 2022. food supply remains steadfast.

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FDA Has Not Met Food Inspection Targets Since 2018, GAO Report Finds

A tragedy across the border – The FDA isn’t ready for the next E. coli outbreak

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Legislation would give the FDA, and CDC power to collect samples from animal farms during outbreaks

Petition for some USDA-FDA dual work on eggs is denied

Technology in the Food Chain: Insights from the IFT 2023 Traceability Challenge Report

Governments around the world remain invested in alternative proteins

Cadmium Fast Facts

2023 outlook: The state of the plant-based meat category

My 5 Minutes with the FDA

Gift a Plate and Ambient Restaurant Sounds Playlist

The American people deserve a single food safety agency

POLITICO: Victims blame FDA for food-recall failures

Dysfunction in Congress could put federal food safety programs at risk

What happens to food safety during the predicted government shutdown?

January/February 2021 Legal Update

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