Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Singapore has relocated its national reference laboratory for food science and held a roundtable on novel food regulations. The National Centre for Food Science (NCFS) is the scientific arm of the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and the new site was officially opened at the end of October.

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Food Quality & Safety

AUGUST 21, 2023

No one entity can protect food safety on its own. In FSMA, FDA clearly stated that the role of industry is to produce safe foods. Ensuring that food is safe requires a collaborative approach; government, industry, and consumers must work together to achieve the common goal of protecting public health.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A toned-down version of a major operation targeting unsafe food has revealed the growing problem of relabeling expired food. Opson Europe, or Opson XII, was coordinated by Europol and occurred between December 2022 and April 2023. In the past, Operation Opson has also involved Interpol.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 7, 2024

Houston, TX A food firm in Texas is on notice from the FDA of severe violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation. This is a repeat observation from FDA’s April 2022 inspection. 5, 2023, warning letter, the FDA described an Aug.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

([link] and found that they were not producing foods to the required food safety standards. Living Tree Community Foods, Inc, a Berkeley, CA processes organic seeds and tree nuts into ready to eat (RTE) organic seed and nut butters as well as repacks a variety of RTE and non RTE food products.

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Food Safety News

MARCH 11, 2024

“This funding will allow the agency to enhance food safety and nutrition, advance medical product safety, help support supply chain resiliency, strengthen the agency’s public health and mission-support capacity, and modernize the FDA’s infrastructure and facilities.”

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Food Safety News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Survey results Almost 300 products were purchased from all states and territories in 2021 and 2022. FSANZ said there were no food safety concerns related to patulin, so there was no need to introduce regulatory measures. To sign up for a free subscription to Food Safety News, click here.)

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 13, 2023

Trenton, NJ A food firm in New Jersey is on notice from the FDA for serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation. 13 and 17 and March 17 inspection of Porfirios Italian Foods Inc.’s

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

FDA investigators found serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation (CGMP & PC rule), Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, part 117 (21 CFR part 117). She stated that all employees should be wearing cleaned outer garments.

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FMT Magazine

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

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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FMT Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Indian food authority has asked the Commissioners of Food Safety of States and Directors of Regional Offices, to monitor the pendency of licensing applications under their jurisdiction through FoSCoS Dashboard and instruct the concerned licensing authorities to strictly adhere to the timelines as prescribed under clause 2.1.4

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FMT Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Indian food authority has asked the Commissioners of Food Safety of States and Directors of Regional Offices, to monitor the pendency of licensing applications under their jurisdiction through FoSCoS Dashboard and instruct the concerned licensing authorities to strictly adhere to the timelines as prescribed under clause 2.1.4

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FMT Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

NSF, the global leading public health and safety organization, recently celebrated its 15th anniversary of operating in India and the APAC region. In 2022, it launched the HACCP Compliance Verified (HCV)-India program, a registration program for food equipment manufactured in the country based on India’s legal requirements and standards.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The FDA issued the first CORE (Coordinated Outbreak Response & Evaluation Network) annual report summarizing the investigations of foodborne outbreaks and adverse events in FDA-regulated human foods for the 2022 calendar year. In 2022, CORE evaluated 65 incidents, responded to 28, and issued advisories for 11.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This is a repeat observation from FDA’s April 2022 inspection. Unclean interior surfaces of the dishwashing machine with apparent mineral and food residue buildup. This is a repeat observation from FDA’s April 2022 inspection. This is a repeat observation from FDA’s April 2022 inspection.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

FDA investigators found serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation (CGMP & PC rule), Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, part 117 (21 CFR part 117). If you determine that S.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

Road Dasihar-East Mumbai 400068 Maharashtra India bhavyashah@chandanmukhwas.com Issuing Office: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) United States July 21, 2023 WARNING LETTER Reference # 661775 Dear Mr. Shah: The United States (U.S.) Also, service reports from December 2022 and January 2023 were missing.

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Kitchen CUT

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Food Allergy Aware and Jacs Allergen Management are spearheading a campaign in early 2022, if you would like to be a part of the Near Miss Reporting campaign and share your best practice or you feel you need to do more, please get in contact and we will send information on how you can engage and share the best practice.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

General Enriquez, Tanicuchi Lote 8 171104 Quito, Pichincha Ecuador francisco@wanabanafruits.com Issuing Office: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) United States August 9, 2024 WARNING LETTER Reference #679052 Dear Mr. Peña: Beginning in October 2023, the U.S.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA) (Public Law 108-282) was enacted in August 2004 and, in part, amended the FD&C Act by defining the term major food allergen (section 201(qq) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JULY 12, 2024

During the inspection of your facility, FDA investigators observed serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation (CGMP & PC rule), Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 117 (21 CFR Part 117).

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GFI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

GFI Europe partnered with EIT Food to invest in cultivated meat research GFI Europe directed almost €2 million in funding from EIT Food, the world’s largest and most dynamic food innovation community. was invited to participate in the Food Safety Foresight Technical Meeting on New Foods and Production Systems at the FAO.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The FDA issued a supplement to the 2022 Food Code. It embodies a preventive rather than reactive approach to FOOD safety through a continuous system of monitoring and verification. When a Food Safety Management System is Required. (A) Contents of the Plans and Specifications.

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