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Defining Healthy Menus – What Restaurants Need to Know

Modern Restaurant Management

On September 27, 2019, Dr. Susan Mayne, director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), said the FDA is “close” to proposing its new definition for “healthy” labeling claims on food products.

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Understanding the Costs of Unsafe Food

Food Safety Tech

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1 in 10 people get sick because of contaminated food and 420,000 people die due to foodborne illnesses every year around the world (WHO, Food Safety, 2022). These costs encompass doctor visits, hospital stays, medications, and laboratory tests. In the U.S.,

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PEW: 12 Charts Explore America’s Salmonella Problem—and Steps to Solve It Stronger rules for poultry would spur action on farms

Bill Marler

Food safety interventions on farms, such as vaccines targeting harmful serotypes, have likely contributed to meaningful reductions in product contamination and human illness. The following year, in 2018[19], chicken became the number one source of Salmonella illnesses (dethroning seeded vegetables), responsible for 14.3%

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No Nutritional info on Alcoholic Beverage label, Specifies FSSAI

FMT Magazine

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has stated that there should not be any nutritional info on the label of an alcoholic beverage. The food regulator has notified amended regulations, in this regard, stating that except energy content, the label should not carry any nutritional info.

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

Food Safety News

The two have introduced the Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act (EFSIA), seeking to give the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authority to collect microbial samples from CAFOs during outbreaks or when there is a public health need. For example, during a 2018 romaine lettuce E.

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USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Announces Leadership Changes

Food Safety Tech

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced changes to the agency’s leadership team. FSIS, Administrator, Office of Public Health Service portrait in Washington, DC on May 30, 2018. in Food Safety Microbiology from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Northern Ireland.

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Bill for wide-open retail sales of raw milk is introduced in Missouri

Food Safety News

Schnelting, R-St Charles, is a former legislative staff member first elected in 2018. Multiple studies have shown that pasteurization does not significantly affect the nutritional quality of milk. Scientists do not have any evidence that shows a nutritional benefit from drinking raw milk. Peters and St. Charles in St.