Penn State Food Safety Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Louie: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an inspection of your sprouting operation and noodle manufacturing facility, located at 4501 Shepard St., 1 Further, we found significant violations of the labeling regulations for foods, 21 CFR Part 101. Bakersfield, CA 93313 from January 2 through February 20, 2024.

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Food Quality & Safety

AUGUST 21, 2023

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. The fact that multiple agencies and inspectors have regulatory oversight over food safety at U.S.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

S 476 requires an employer to consider the time it takes for the employee to complete the training and the examination as compensable hours worked, for which the employer would pay, and to pay the employee for any necessary expenditures or losses associated with obtaining a food handler card.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JULY 1, 2024

The issue with this situation is that by regulation, canned coffee meets the definition of a low acid food unless it is acidified to the lower pH. With that, the processor of liquid canned coffee in the can has to file the process with FDA as part of the Low Acid Canned Food regulations (LACF).

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

The internet has opened the door to many food operations to sell products. People often base their decision for purchasing based upon that website. Recently, FDA inspected a Berkley California operation, Living Tree Community Foods, Inc. link] and found that they were not producing foods to the required food safety standards.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

During the inspection, the FDA investigator found serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventative Controls for Human Food regulation (CGMP & PC rule), Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 117 (21 CFR Part 117). Your Egg Noodle (5 lb.)

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