Bill Marler

DECEMBER 11, 2021

This review is part of FDA’s “New Era of Smarter Food Safety: FDA’s Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement Plan” that also requires a hard look and the support by those concerned about improving the safety of our food and driving the numbers of ill consumers down. Thanks to the deep dive by Craig Hedberg.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The temporary requirements add an extra level of control to the food safety measures already in place under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations Act (SFCA) and the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR). Food safety investigations by Canadian and U.S. FDA Leafy Greens STEC Action Plan.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Global and domestic supply chains are more complex and interdependent than ever, and while they offer consumer benefits like more choices, lower prices, and the year-round availability of many food items that were once only seasonal, the increasing number of moving pieces also adds more risk for product quality and food safety failures.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 29, 2021

For example, I see industry trends moving toward: A more active and robust food safety culture. Food safety culture may have been an afterthought before, but it’s now one of the hottest topics since COVID-19 became our collective challenge. An increase in self-assessments at locations.

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2025

FDA has released four new guidance documents to help industry comply with food labeling regulations concerning allergens and plant-based alternatives to animal foods, as well as food safety regulations for ready-to-eat (RTE), low-moisture foods.

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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. Office of Audit Services. W-00-22-59472. Abbott denies the connection.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To increase key metrics for your restaurant – including customer loyalty, sales, and profits – establish and maintain an exemplary food safety culture, where all employees work collaboratively to maximize safety and minimize risks. Ensure safety all along the supply chain.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

From FDA Press Release from yesterday: Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a proposed rule to establish additional traceability recordkeeping requirements for certain foods. Where possible, FDA has drawn on existing consensus standards that industry members may already be using.

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Bill Marler

APRIL 28, 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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Bill Marler

MAY 21, 2022

Stephen Sundlof of the Food and Drug Administration told lawmakers that agency inspectors will start to routinely collect samples for bacterial testing whenever they go into a peanut butter manufacturing facility. “We Sundlof said the government is weighing whether to designate it as a high-risk food.

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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. However, the resulting investigation and inspection (and whistleblower documents) uncovered enough problems in the Abbott facility to shutter it causing havoc with supplies of infant formula.

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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. Since 2017, there are nearly 500 documented victims and six deaths from leafy green vegetables contaminated by E. Because the disease is difficult to document, the actual numbers are likely many times higher.

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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. The Food and Drug Administration has also released a revised draft of a second guidance document that includes a section on testing spent sprout irrigation water for pathogens.

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Food Safety Tech

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

FSMA requires FDA to establish a voluntary, fee-based program for the expedited review and importation of foods from importers who achieve and maintain a high level of control over the safety and security of their supply chains. This guidance document is presented in question and answer format.

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

Uncovered through a FOIA request, an FDA Form 483 sent to Taylor Farms Colorado Springs facility documented questionable food safety and hygiene observations. The release of the FOIA-requested form comes from increased scrutiny following the facility's implication as the supplier of McDonalds onions that caused an E.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 28, 2024

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Santa Monica, CA A California food firm with a facility in Maryland is on notice from the FDA for unsanitary storing of ingredients that could contaminate food products. s animal food manufacturing facility in Baltimore, MD. Reconserve Inc.

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Modern Restaurant Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Poor maintenance can also cause restaurants to fall out of compliance with FDA regulations and fail health inspections, food safety audits, hygiene and sanitation audits, and fire safety inspections. Maintenance staff must also have a carefully documented and up-to-date list of which vendors are used for which assets.

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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. more events than were recorded in 2022.

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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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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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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 27, 2019

According to the FDA , Sprouts Unlimited of Marion Iowa is recalling clover spouts in 4 oz packages because it may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O103 bacteria ( E. The affected batches of clover sprouts were distributed to Hy Vee Food stores, Fareway Food Stores and Jimmy John’s restaurants in Iowa. coli O103 ).

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 24, 2021

As reported by Food Safety News , in October 2009, The Larry King Show on CNN last night cast a pretty wide net in focusing on both food safety and whether or not people are better off not eating meat. MARLER: Well, whether or not the FDA would clamp down on that is I think to be seen. coli and hamburger.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company has been given months to years to correct problems. __ Wan-Gee Foods Inc. 9 warning letter to Wan-Gee Foods Inc. the Food and Drug Administration warned the company of violations of federal law.

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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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Food Safety Tech

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Similarly, food safety culture (FSC) is the solid foundation that enables organizations to ultimately minimize food safety risks. This is why the simple idea of food safety culture emerges to be a powerful concept in reducing the global burden of foodborne diseases. In short, food safety equals behavior.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Food and Drug Administration plans to revoke the regulation authorizing the use of brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in food. It’s been permitted in small amounts by the FDA. In 1970, the FDA determined BVO was no longer “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) and began overseeing its use under our food additive regulations.

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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. American Distribution and Manufacturing Co.,

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Bill Marler

MAY 10, 2022

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. So, how did Abbott and the FDA find themselves facing some grieving and many other thousands of scared and angry parents? It is a history of warning signs ignored.

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Food Safety Tech

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The FDA has updated the CFSAN Online Submission Module (COSM) to improve communication for industry who send regulatory submissions to FDA’s Office of Food Additive Safety (OFAS). The form then guides users through developing and organizing the documents in the appropriate order for submission directly to OFAS.

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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 Tech

JANUARY 23, 2024

We spoke with Sabo to learn more about his findings, how these tools can be utilized by public health agencies and the food industry and what’s next for AI/ML in food safety. Visual text analytics can scan inspection reports and analyze terms related to serious food safety violations.

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JANUARY 29, 2025

FDA issued a Warning Letter to Salt City Baking Company of Murray, Utah, a baking company that produces ready-to-eat (RTE) bread products. In the Preventive Controls for Human Foods training, these topics are covered, including the need to address controls associated with exposed RTE foods.

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Food Safety Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Section 204known as the Food Traceability Final Ruleaims to ensure food safety through enhanced traceability of high-risk foods. nut butters, leafy greens, fresh-cut produce) that require enhanced recordkeeping.

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Food Safety Tech

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Everyone understands the importance of a robust food safety program. It should ensure the safety of the product and environment, backed by solid, traceable data. The food industry is vast, stretching from the farm all the way to our plates, and includes a diverse array of foods and drinks.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction as part of its enforcement activities. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. food safety standards. The FDA has acknowledged receipt of the company’s written response, dated May 2, 2023.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are not uncommon where Kratom is involved. The tropical tree native to Southeast Asia is not approved for any medical use by the FDA but is often mentioned for one kind of caution or another. FDA has not approved kratom for sale in the U.S., Marshals involving the U.S.

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Food Safety Tech

JUNE 18, 2024

There is only one week left to submit your comments to the docket on the New Era of Smarter Food Safety. FDA is seeking feedback on topics discussed during the public meeting as well as specific questions they have identified in the topics for consideration document on FDA’s meeting page.

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