Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The FDA has confirmed that lead chromate is the source of lead and chromium in cinnamon applesauce marketed for children and imported from Ecuador. Leaders at the FDA continue to believe the contamination was intentional. FDA’s leading hypothesis remains that this was likely an act of economically motivated adulteration.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The FDA has reviewed and supports NCDHHS’s analytical findings and found that analytical results at this level could result in acute toxicity. The FDA has shared the results with the firm and on October 31, 2023, Wanabana LLC initiated a voluntary recall of all WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree Pouches.

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APRIL 28, 2022

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today submitted for the record a report acquired from a whistleblower who worked at the Abbott facility which produces infant formula recalled by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February. The report was submitted to the FDA on October 20, 2021.

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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. The FDA is advising consumers to throw away and to not buy these ground cinnamon products. Greenbriar International, Inc.

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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

According to the FDA, this action is occurring within the context of its ongoing commitment to enhance regulatory oversight and reflects the agency’s determination to ensure optimal conditions for producing infant formula. Despite these actions, the FDA does not advise parents and caregivers to avoid specific infant formulas.

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FoodDocs

JUNE 7, 2024

We analyzed the 2023 FDA food recalls in the Food & Beverage category and broke down the most common recall reasons, recall frequency patterns, and more.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The FDA has released its final food safety guidance for producers of sprouts, a food that has been linked to several outbreaks in recent years. Between 1996 and 2020, the FDA reported 52 foodborne illness outbreaks linked to sprouts, which are produced in conditions ideal for pathogen growth.

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Food Safety News

MARCH 17, 2024

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. El Monte, CA The FDA has warned a food firm in California over various violations inside their manufacturing facility, including pests such as birds, rodents, worms and cockroaches. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 10, 2024

According to the FDA, Intershell International Corp. 26, 2023, Dec. 27, 2023, and Jan. Scallops harvested from prohibited waters may be contaminated with human pathogens, toxic elements or poisonous or deleterious substances and can cause illness if consumed,” according to the FDA warming.

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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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MAY 24, 2022

Now the House and Senate are set to ask questions of the Industry and FDA about how the outbreak happened and how it impacted the supply of infant formula. Here is a preview of the FDA’s position See full testimony – FDA Testimony ECOI Infant Formula 5.25.2022 final : TESTIMONY OF. CALIFF, M.D. COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 26, 2024

The FDA has not reported where the patients live or their ages. The investigation appears to be in its beginning stages because the FDA has not yet begun traceback efforts or sampling or on-site inspections. Other FDA investigations into foodborne outbreaks are ongoing. The outbreak notice was first posted on Jan.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. A food firm in California is on notice from the FDA for serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventative Controls for Human Food regulation. 7, 2023, warning letter, the FDA described a Feb.

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Food Safety Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) food product recall data from 2002 –2023, drawing conclusions from more than 35,000 product recalls. A recent study has analyzed U.S.

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Food Safety Magazine

MAY 16, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its FDA Food Code Adoption Report, which states that, as of December 31, 2023, only three states and two territories have adopted the most recent version (2022).

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for ensuring that the nation’s domestic and imported seafood supply is safe, sanitary, wholesome, and honestly labeled. The agency recently provided access to content about seafood, including fish and shellfish, from across the Food section of FDA.gov.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Booker, DeLauro Introduce Bicameral Legislation to Better Protect Americans from Foodborne Illnesses Legislation enables improved monitoring of CAFOs during outbreaks or when there is a public health need SEPTEMBER 13, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C. coli outbreak investigation, the FDA traced the strain of outbreak E. Today, U.S.

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Food Safety News

MARCH 10, 2024

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. 30 warning letter, the FDA described Nov. 1, 2023, inspections of Barsotti Juice Company, Inc.’s The FDA’s inspection revealed that the firm was not in compliance with federal regulations, which resulted in the issuance of an FDA Form 483.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The latest Salmonella finding concerns the following product: Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Antibiotic & Grain-Free Chicken Recipe for Cats, Lot 9802, manufactured on Jul 7, 2023. Darwin’s Natural Pet Products Natural Selections Chicken Recipe for Cats, Lot 9795, manufactured on Jun 28, 2023.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about certain tejocote root supplements substituted with toxic yellow oleander. Tested Products: To date, the FDA has tested 9 samples, representing the 9 different products listed below, and found them to contain yellow oleander. Background: In Sept.

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Food Safety Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

A total of 313 food product recall announcements were issued in 2023 by FDA and USDA, which the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG) Education Fund analyzed in its Food for Thought 2024 report to identify recall trends.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 16, 2024

— OPINION — By Steven Grossman, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA. What started as a crisis over the safety and supply of infant formula became a wide-ranging review of FDA’s food programs by the Reagan-Udall Foundation. 13, 2023 ( proposed changes and updates ). Register her e. 31 at 2:00 p.m. 8 at 3 p.m.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 10, 2024

As of January 8, 2024, FDA has received 87 confirmed complaints/reports of adverse events potentially linked to recalled product. To date, confirmed complainants, or people for whom a complaint or adverse event was submitted and met FDA’s complainant definition, are between zero and 53 years of age and the median age is one year old.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Fort Wayne, IN A food firm in Indiana is on notice from the FDA for not having FSVPs for several imported food products. 20, 2023, warning letter, the FDA described an Aug. 15-17, 2023, Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) inspection of Kyawkhin Inc.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The FDA is alerting parents and caregivers about two varieties of LittleOak infant formulas that the company is currently recalling. For example, the formulas contain some ingredients that the FDA has not yet evaluated to determine if they are safe for infant formula. food safety and nutritional standards.

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Food Safety Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A new FDA webpage lists regulations that the Human Foods Program (HFP) plans to publish by October 2024 and longer-term regulations HFP is prioritizing. FDA also updated the list of guidance topics that it is considering and expects to publish by the end of 2024, which was last updated in July 2023.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In response to the situation, the FDA initiated the development of a prevention strategy, with the draft released in November 2022. “At As more information becomes available, the FDA may add additional actions over time.” This includes the recent issuance of three warning letters to infant formula firms in August 2023.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. The FDA inspected your manufacturing facility, located at 10849 Midwest Industrial Blvd. The FDA inspected your manufacturing facility, located at 10849 Midwest Industrial Blvd. Louis, MO 63132 on May 2 through 24, 2023. Louis, MO In a Nov.

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

— COMMENTARY — By Steven Grossman, executive director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA On Sept. 29, 2023, I fell asleep — certain that the government would shutdown at midnight the next day. The Alliance for a Stronger FDA had already circulated a shutdown toolkit for FDA stakeholders. The threat was real.

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a draft guidance for industry titled “ Recommendations for Collecting Representative Samples for Food Testing Used as Evidence for Release of Certain Fish and Fishery Products Subject to Detention Without Physical Examination (DWPE) and Removal of a Foreign Manufacturer’s Goods from DWPE.”

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Food Safety Tech

AUGUST 4, 2023

The FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is hosting a free hybrid public meeting entitled “Modernizing Food and Drug Administration Recalls Listening Session” on September 29, 2023, from 9:00am-5:00pm ET. The post FDA Announces Public Meeting on Modernizing Food Recalls appeared first on FoodSafetyTech.

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The FDA is withdrawing a 2022 guidance document titled Questions and Answers Regarding Channels of Trade Policy for Human Food Commodities with Chlorpyrifos Residues: Guidance for Industry , following a decision by the U.S.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 20, 2024

The FDA alert is also for consumers in California who have recently consumed oysters in San Diego or Los Angeles County restaurants sourced from Sociedad Acuicola GolPac (MX 06 SP) harvested from Bahia Salina, Sonora, Mexico on 12/18/2023 or 12/27/2023.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 9, 2023

5, the FDA said it has received reports of 64 children under age 6 who have suffered “adverse events” linked to the tainted cinnamon applesauce pouches. The FDA said its count is based on self-reported information submitted by health-care providers, consumers and some state partners. As of Dec. Ingredient sample collection is underway.

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Food Safety Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will host a free, hybrid public listening session on recall modernization on September 29, 2023. The listening session will provide an opportunity for stakeholders to share information and feedback about topics related to recall modernization for FDA-regulated products.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Golden Natural Products Forest Hills, NY An import company in New York is on notice from the FDA for not having a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) for a number of imported food products. In an Oct. In an Oct. American Distribution and Manufacturing Co.,

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