Penn State Food Safety Blog

JULY 26, 2024

There have been increasing news on microplastics and nanoplastics in our food supply. Environment a more important source than migration from food packaging - "Microplastics and nanoplastics may be present in food, primarily from environmental contamination where foods are grown or raised.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

"Spices such as turmeric, cinnamon and paprika have been known to be mixed with lead chromate or lead oxide, compounds that mirror the spices' colors, said Karen Everstine, technical director for FoodchainID, a company that tracks food supply chains." “The CDC’s case definition for state partners includes a blood lead level of 3.5

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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. Here are a few notable statistics.

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Bill Marler

APRIL 9, 2020

Quality Assurance and Food Safety Magazine. On one hand: “You have to recognize what an amazing job food production is doing in the world, especially in the U.S. Given the amount of people that we feed, the relative safety of the food supply is pretty amazing given how it has become more and more complex.

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Bill Marler

MAY 24, 2022

COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS. DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, FOOD POLICY AND RESPONSE. DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY AND APPLIED NUTRITION. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. government supply chain partners were engaged at the highest levels. CALIFF, M.D. FRANK YIANNAS, M.P.H.

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Food Quality & Safety

JUNE 3, 2024

In the past decade, an additional virus, hepatitis E, joined norovirus and hepatitis A as a top three concern for human food safety. The expert committee also considered trade implications of possible standards to ensure that food safety does not become a trade barrier. There is no ISO method for prepared foods.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Section 403(w)(1) of the FD&C Act sets forth the requirements for declaring the presence of each major food allergen on the product label. This guidance does not address the potential that a substance that would be new to the food supply might be a food allergen.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

An article posted elsewhere discussed two recent surveys on people's concern with the food supply. One is a Gallup poll stating that "Americans’ confidence in the federal government’s ability to ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply has reached a record low". There are food related outbreaks.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 25, 2020

Healthy SoyNut Butter case — which officials at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have hailed as an improvement over past failures — was nonetheless emblematic of persistent weaknesses in the nation’s food-safety system, some of which haven’t been corrected for two years after being flagged by the agency’s inspector general.

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