Food Safety Magazine

MAY 27, 2024

In this episode of Food Safety Matters , we are joined by Dr. Barbara Kowalcyk, an accomplished food safety researcher, educator, and advocate.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now the question is will Congress and the FDA Commissioner take the recommendations to heart? Most FDA employees understand the immense responsibility of the Agency’s Human Foods Program, appreciate the importance of their work, and share a common value of striving to protect public health.

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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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Food Safety Tech

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The FDA and Stop Foodborne Illness are hosting the eighth webinar in the ongoing series of webinars exploring food safety culture on September 13, 2023, from 12pm to 1:00pm ET. To learn more about the webinar series and listen to recordings of past webinars, visit  Collaborating on Culture in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today it has updated the nutritional requirements a food must meet to use the claim “healthy” on the package, which includes criteria a food must meet to use the healthy claim on the package. For more details, see Use of the Term Healthy on Food Labeling.

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Food Safety Tech

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On December 6, the FDA and Stop Foodborne Illness will co-host the ninth complimentary webinar in the ongoing series, Collaborating on Culture in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety.

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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. Under the proposed consent decree, Abbott Nutrition will be required to retain an independent expert to review the Sturgis facility’s operations to ensure compliance with the law. Abbott denies the connection.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 23, 2023

EPA’s James “Jim” Jones was named Wednesday as the first FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods. A Yiannas-Mayne rift was reported in 2022 that was so serious that they’d even argue about how food outbreaks should be investigated. Jones is scheduled to begin at the FDA on Sept. food supply.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The FDA is alerting parents and caregivers about two varieties of LittleOak infant formulas that the company is currently recalling. The products have been sold in the United States illegally because the company has not submitted the required premarket notification to the Food and Drug Administration.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2023

In the waning days of 2022, FDA issued an updated Food Code with several important updates. FDA is responsible for more than a quarter of the U.S. economy, and the Food Code impacts virtually every American. Many of the key changes in the 2022 Food Code relate to food allergens. goes uneaten.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Independent Expert Panel, charged with generating the report by December 6th, is comprised of researchers, former regulators, and process improvement specialists with disciplinary expertise and experience in epidemiology, food science and safety, microbiology, nutrition, and regulatory operations.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Food and Drug Administration has escalated efforts to ensure the safety of infant formula production by issuing warning letters to three major manufacturers: ByHeart Inc., Mead Johnson Nutrition (Reckitt), and Perrigo Wisconsin, LLC. 30, 2023, warning letter, the FDA described a Dec. ByHeart Inc. 21, 2022, through Feb.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Comments received through the Stakeholder Portal will be shared with the Independent Expert Panel charged with generating the recommendations for FDA. On September 29-30 , the Reagan-Udall Foundation will facilitate a public meeting of the Independent Expert Panel on food.

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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. The FDA’s warning has prompted World Green Nutrition, Inc. Tejocotex Amazon.com Alipotec South TX World Green Nutrition, Inc. Additional sample analysis is pending.

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Bill Marler

MAY 19, 2022

In 30 years of practice, I have on numerous occasions offered to FDA leadership the opportunity to meet directly with the people who consumed food that was tainted under the FDA’s watch. He had no meaningful vocalizations and was receiving nutrition through a feeding tube.

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Food Safety Tech

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The USDA has appointed 21 new members and nine returning members to the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF). The purpose of the committee is to provide impartial scientific advice and recommendations to federal food safety agencies. Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Washington, D.C.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration, in partnership with STOP Foodborne Illness, a non-profit public health organization, is set to host the eighth installment of its webinar series on food safety culture. According to the FDA, food safety culture stands as a cornerstone in the FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint.

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

The FDA Foods Coalition was announced Thursday in Washington, D.C., promising to put more pressure on the federal government for improved food safety. Califf began his second tour as FDA Commissioner, all sorts of pressures have been applied for change. This has led to a movement to “get the F out of the FDA.”

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Bill Marler

MARCH 29, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that Bravo Packing, Inc., an animal food manufacturing company of Carney’s Point, New Jersey, has agreed to stop selling, manufacturing and distributing raw pet food and come into compliance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act).

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A senator and representative have introduced legislation that would give the FDA and CDC authority to enter and collect samples at feedlots during foodborne illness outbreaks. coli outbreak investigation, the FDA traced the strain of outbreak E. The FDA also determined that nearby cattle were likely the source of E.

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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. 1503A (the Great Room), Silver Spring, MD 20993. Virtual registration is also available.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Program areas would include food safety, chemical safety and innovative food products, including those from new agricultural technologies, that will bolster the resilience of the U.S. Jones is scheduled to begin at the FDA on September 24, 2023. I’m delighted to welcome Jim to the FDA. Califf, M.D.

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Food Safety Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Human Foods Program has published a list of priority work it intends to deliver upon in Fiscal Year 2025, spanning microbiological food safety, food chemical safety, and nutrition.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

E ditor’s Note: With permission, Food Safety News today posts the 2023 Update on State Food Safety Legislature by Doug Farquhar, JD, Government Affairs Director for the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). The following table summarizes bills related to food safety introduced by state legislation in 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration’s first Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, Jim Jones, started his work yesterday and sent the below letter to colleagues. FDA Commissioner Robert Calif appointed Jones after the agency’s embarrassing turmoil over the lack of a clear chain of command on the food side of its responsibilities.

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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. We have played a key role in the doubling of FDA’s taxpayer funding.

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Food Safety Tech

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In September, Jim Jones, former EPA employee and member of the Reagan-Udall Expert Panel for Foods, became the first FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods. He is tasked with reorganizing the agency to develop better coordination among the multiple departments involved in the regulation of human foods in the U.S.,

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MAY 28, 2022

FDA officials were pressed about the failure of leadership and disorganization of the recall by Abbott Nutrition. The FDA refused to take food safety seriously and now the most vulnerable are at risk. This week there were three hearings in Washington D.C. The Abbott recall could have been prevented.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

PBM Nutritionals, LLC is recalling Parent’s Choice brand Sensitivity Premium Infant Formula and Tippy Toes brand Sensitivity Premium Infant Formula because of an inadvertent release of rejected product to the market. According to the details posted online by the FDA, the recall was initiated on June 16, 2023, and is ongoing.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The agency is working on the strategy as part of its response to an outbreak of illnesses and the subsequent temporary closure of the Abbott Nutrition production plant in Sturgis, MI. In response to the situation, the FDA initiated the development of a prevention strategy, with the draft released in November 2022. “At

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The FDA has issued a new guidance for industry that describes how firms can voluntarily engage with the FDA before marketing food from genome-edited plants. The guidance reaffirms that the risk-based approach the FDA has taken for foods derived from new plant varieties also applies to foods from genome-edited plants.

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Food Safety News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Califf, FDA Commissioner of Food and Drugs Last month was the first anniversary of the White House Conference and National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. The FDA continues to make significant progress in our nutrition efforts, which can help combat the diet-related disease epidemic. By: Robert M.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

When it comes to the term “healthy,” which is a nutrient content claim, the FDA defined it more than 25 years ago in 1993 with a focus on total fats, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. Manufacturers of foods generally considered to be healthy but not low in fat (e.g., Health claims are subject to different FDA rules.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In response to the infant formula supply crisis in 2022 and the deadly infections that led to it, the FDA has updated its infant formula compliance program. Abbott Nutrition initiated a recall of Similac infant formula powder and other brands in February 2022. food supply are safe and nutritious,” according to a statement from FDA.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

Califf, MD, FDA commissioner, and exercise decision-making authority over all the program’s entities. He will also lead efforts on nutrition to help reduce diet-related diseases and improve health equity. food supply, as well as the important role that the agriculture community and state partners play in this paradigm.”

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Food Safety News

MARCH 11, 2024

The Food and Drug Administration is requesting 7.4 The FDA’s request is less than 1 percent of President Biden’s proposed $7.3 The FDA requests an increase of $495 million above its current funding level. A small part of the FDA’s $702 billion request would go toward food safety. 30 this year.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

The FDA has released extensive information about the status of its work to improve its monitoring of infant formula production and its handling of complaints about the safety of formula. In response to those congressional demands, the FDA has stepped up inspection of infant formula production. 1, 2022, through Sept.

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