Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The Reagan-Udall Foundation today announced five members of an Independent Expert Panel who will conduct the operational evaluation of the Food and Drug Administration’s human foods program. Dr. Jane Henney, former FDA Commissioner, was named as Chair of the panel last month.

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APRIL 4, 2022

Food Safety Talk 259: No Bill, You Pay Us. April 4, 2022. The guys are joined by friend of the show and food safety lawyer Bill Marler, for his second time on the show (but first in 8 years). The discussion goes to the importance and power of linking food safety to those who have been victims of foodborne illness.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 2, 2021

“HACCP: A systematic approach to the identification, evaluation, and control of food safety hazards.” – So says the FDA. The proposed rule is the latest action taken by the FDA to continue working towards implementation of key provisions of FSMA. related to produce, protecting public health and saving lives.

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Bill Marler

JULY 14, 2022

Here is the latest from the FDA: Case Counts. Last illness onset: July 9, 2022*. Estimate based on Consumer Complaint and CAERs reports received by the FDA. Thank you also providing leftover product to both the lab we are using and the FDA as we search for the common contaminate that is causing these common symptoms.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

It is 2022 and 16 years since the 2006 spinach E. coli outbreak that was supposed to be the wake-up call for both the leafy green industry (beginning the the Leafy Green Marketing Agreement – LGMA) and what prompted the need for the Food Safety Modernization Act – FSMA). Was the food any safer this year as compared to last?

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JULY 25, 2022

million in fines, forfeiture, and civil settlement payments was the second-largest amount ever paid in resolving a food safety matter. Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1938 in reaction to growing public safety demands. The company agreed to pay criminal penalties totaling $17.5 The total $19.35

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Bill Marler

JUNE 10, 2022

As of May 31, 2022, a total of 18 outbreak-associated cases of hepatitis A have been reported from 3 states – California (16), Minnesota (1) and North Dakota (1). Illnesses started on dates ranging from March 28, 2022, to May 6, 2022. Individuals became ill between early and mid-April 2022. Final WDM – To Be Filed.

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Bill Marler

JUNE 2, 2022

HHS, OIG posted this morning: The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to safeguard the Nation’s food supply, including infant formula, and ensure that all ingredients are safe. Food and Drug Administration. Announced or Revised. Report Number(s). W-00-22-59472.

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Bill Marler

MARCH 25, 2022

A food product is also considered “adulterated” if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance, which may render it injurious to health. The 1938 Act, and the recently signed Food Safety Modernization Act, stand today as the primary means by which the federal government enforces food safety standards.

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Food Safety Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated the 2022 Food Code based on expert recommendations. In a new supplement, the U.S.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

MARCH 20, 2025

The FDA delayed the compliance date for the Food Traceability Rule by 30 months. Scheduled to take effect in January of 2026, FDA has pushed the date back. link] FDA Intends to Extend Compliance Date for Food Traceability Rule Constituent Update March 20, 2025 Today, the U.S.

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Food Safety Tech

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 8, the FDA Coordinated Outbreak Response & Evaluation (CORE) Network released its first annual report summarizing the investigations of foodborne outbreaks and adverse events in FDA-regulated human foods for the 2022 calendar year. The investigations in 2022 included E. Read the full report here.

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Bill Marler

MAY 29, 2022

The FDA says the strawberries were branded FreshKampo and HEB, but again give no indication were the strawberries were grown. Illness onset dates range from March 28 – April 30, 2022. Illness onset dates range from March 28 – April 30, 2022. Total United States Illnesses: 17 – Canada 10. What is Hepatitis A?

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There is no dispute that Daily Harvest French Lentil + Leek Crumbles, with tara, caused a significant outbreak of acute liver failure according to both Daily Harvest and the FDA. Our investigation team will continue working with the FDA, the tara flour producer and others to help determine what specifically made people sick.”.

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Bill Marler

APRIL 8, 2022

Canada reports : As of April 8, 2022, there have been 328 cases of norovirus and gastrointestinal illness linked to consumption of British Columbia oysters reported in the following provinces: British Columbia (293), Alberta (3), Saskatchewan (1), Manitoba (15) and Ontario (16). Illness has been reported from March 11 through 19, 2022.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 17, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) – I do not recall a CDC post recently that included working with both the FSIS (regulates, Beef, Pork, Poultry and Catfish) and the FDA (regulates everything else). 30 Isolates Selected.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 23, 2023

EPA’s James “Jim” Jones was named Wednesday as the first FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods. A Yiannas-Mayne rift was reported in 2022 that was so serious that they’d even argue about how food outbreaks should be investigated. Jones is scheduled to begin at the FDA on Sept. food supply. food supply.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 24, 2020

Still, it should have been the wake-up call that mobilized the government to defeat this threat to food safety. coli outbreaks than any other food, including beef, but the government’s efforts to secure the safety of greens remains a pale shadow of its policing of red meat. Consider: ? coli poisonings.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 7, 2022

Peanut Butter: As of July 27, 2022, a total of 21 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Senftenberg were reported from 17 states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from February 20, 2022, through May 24, 2022. This means that people in this outbreak likely got sick from the same food.

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Food Safety Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on its website that it intends to extend the compliance date for the Food Traceability Rule (the final rule) by 30 months. The FDA intends to extend the compliance date using appropriate procedures at a later time, including publishing a proposed rule in the Federal Register.

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Bill Marler

APRIL 15, 2022

This information is contained in the September 20-24, 2021, Establishment Inspection Report (EIR), obtained by eFoodAlert from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. FDA not blameless. APPLIED – FOI II – BR Abbott Nutritions- FEI# 1815692 9-2021 EIR. Unanswered questions.

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Food Safety Magazine

APRIL 9, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2022–2023 has revealed only 3 percent of samples to be violative. Results of sampling and testing of imported honey for signs of economically motivated adulteration conducted by the U.S.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Food and Drug Administration has escalated efforts to ensure the safety of infant formula production by issuing warning letters to three major manufacturers: ByHeart Inc., Despite these actions, the FDA does not advise parents and caregivers to avoid specific infant formulas. 30, 2023, warning letter, the FDA described a Dec.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The FDA says the outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections linked to three farms in Indiana is over, but the agency has not named the farms. The melon farms were also linked to at least four previous outbreaks, including one in 2022. In the 2022 outbreak, 87 people were sickened, and 32 were admitted to hospitals.

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Food Safety Tech

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Last week, hundreds of food safety professionals, members of the FDA and USDA, and leaders in academia, food safety testing and cybersecurity met in Parsippany, New Jersey, for the 2023 Food Safety Consortium.

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Bill Marler

MARCH 29, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that Bravo Packing, Inc., an animal food manufacturing company of Carney’s Point, New Jersey, has agreed to stop selling, manufacturing and distributing raw pet food and come into compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act).

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JANUARY 19, 2025

The FDA is amending its color additive regulations to no longer allow for the use of FD&C Red No. 3 in food and ingested drugs in response to a 2022 color additive petition. 3 is a synthetic food dye that gives foods and drinks a bright, cherry-red color. The FDA estimates that FD&C Red No.

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Bill Marler

MAY 17, 2022

According to the CDC and FDA, at least 4 kids were sickened and of those two died, from drinking Abbott infant formula. It also includes requirements for testing products, as well as ceasing production, and promptly notifying the FDA should contamination be detected. Abbott denies the connection. In the complaint, filed by the U.S.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Comments received through the Stakeholder Portal will be shared with the Independent Expert Panel charged with generating the recommendations for FDA. On September 29-30 , the Reagan-Udall Foundation will facilitate a public meeting of the Independent Expert Panel on food.

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Food Safety Tech

AUGUST 15, 2024

Food safety is an issue that is critical to millions of people’s health every year worldwide. Maintaining a high standard of hygiene is essential in preventing contamination and ensuring all people receive the safest quality food products every time. more events than were recorded in 2022. from 2022 to 2023.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Here is what the FDA said in May 2020 : The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a report on its investigation of the Salmonella Newport outbreak that caused more than 1,600 reported illnesses in the U.S. The FDA worked with the U.S. and Canada between June and October 2020.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The FDA Foods Coalition was announced Thursday in Washington, D.C., promising to put more pressure on the federal government for improved food safety. Since February 2022, when Dr. Robert M. Califf began his second tour as FDA Commissioner, all sorts of pressures have been applied for change.

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Bill Marler

MAY 10, 2022

From September 2021 to February 2022, the CDC received reports of Cronobacter bacteria cases in infants in Minnesota, Ohio and Texas that resulted in four illnesses with two deaths. These illnesses were ultimately linked by the CDC and FDA to the consumption of powdered infant formula produced by Abbott in its Sturgis, Michigan facility.

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Food Safety Tech

APRIL 9, 2024

Recently published data from an FDA sampling assignment carried out in 2022 and 2023 to test imported honey for economically motivated adulteration (EMA) found that 3% of samples were adulterated. Between April 2022 and July 2023 , the agency collected 107 samples of imported honey and found three samples (3%) to be violative.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In September 2022, the FDA released its internal evaluation of the infant formula response , which recommended that the agency review and update its infant formula compliance program to ensure that it reflected the latest science on Cronobacterand offered consistency and clarity on its inspection and compliance activities.

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Food Quality & Safety

APRIL 22, 2024

With the popularity of food delivery services and meal kits growing so quickly, however, food safety regulators have given little guidance regarding best practices for direct-to-consumer (DTC) or third-party delivery (TPD) services. Postal Service, UPS, FedEx, aren’t regulated by food safety agencies, says Donald W.

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Food Safety News

MARCH 6, 2024

In response to the problem with elevated levels of lead in cinnamon in children’s applesauce and recalls of products in the fall of 2023, the FDA initiated a review of ground cinnamon and has issued warnings. During the review the Food and Drug Administration found elevated levels of lead in several products.

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