Bill Marler

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The FDA issued this warning this morning – Recall underway. The FDA has reviewed and supports NCDHHS’s analytical findings and found that analytical results at this level could result in acute toxicity. WanaBana has agreed to voluntarily recall all WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches regardless of expiration.

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Beginning Friday night, FDA employees overseeing food ingredients received calls and emails notifying them that their recent terminations had been rescinded effective immediately, according to messages viewed by AP. FDA staffers who were reinstated said their immediate supervisors received no explanation or advance notice on the decisions.

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Bill Marler

MARCH 2, 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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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The FDA says it’s conducting an inspection of that facility. For more information, please visit CDC’s page to review their case reporting methodology and findings. The pouches found to be contaminated were sold under three brands — Weis, WanaBana and Schnucks — that are all linked to a manufacturing facility in Ecuador.

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Food Safety Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In an effort to reduce food waste caused by consumer confusion, and following new legislation passed in California standardizing the use of “Best By” dates on food, USDA and FDA have issued a joint request for information about industry practices, consumer perceptions, and impacts related to food date labeling.

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Food Safety Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened a request for information about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in seafood.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 11, 2021

There is an ongoing need for coordination of outbreak response within the FDA and with other federal and state agencies that touch on food safety.There is clearly an ongoing need to more effectively coordinated the multiple acronyms that make up governmental food safety responses at the federal, state, and local levels.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is using legislation to advance food safety progress and recommending the use of digital technology to support instantaneous, automated data exchange that enhances product traceability. Later this year, the FDA will propose mandatory traceability requirements for “high-risk” foods?

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Included in the document are highlights of the recently released Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Best Practices for Retail Food Stores, Restaurants, and Food Pick-Up/Delivery Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. For up-to-date COVID-19 resources and information for the restaurant industry, visit restaurant.org/COVID19.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 6, 2024

The food industry as a whole and the FDA should be embarrassed and actually do something to make sure that something like this never happens again. Updates about the investigation can be found on the FDA’s website, Investigation of Elevated Lead Levels: Cinnamon Applesauce Pouches (November 2023) | FDA.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The FDA’s proposed reorganization package includes new updates that not only shift how the agency’s food and field work is conducted, but also impacts a number of additional FDA offices outside of these programs.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 8, 2020

These procedures must be added to your current food safety policies built upon the 2017 FDA Food Code recommendation for the BIG 6 pathogens. Get Information from Reputable Sources. COVID-19 information is being constantly updated, with the CDC, FDA, WHO, and NIH offering ever-evolving information on COVID protocols.

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Food Safety Tech

JANUARY 15, 2025

Food and Drug Administration is announcing an important step to provide nutrition information to consumers by proposing to require a front-of-package (FOP) nutrition label for most packaged foods. It complements the FDAs iconic Nutrition Facts label, which gives consumers more detailed information about the nutrients in their food.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

When employees feel safe, informed, and engaged, then customers will feel safe. The FDA’s New Era blueprint has made it clear that they are moving toward their operations being fully digital, and it will eventually be required that all food-related businesses go digital as well — and that is a positive thing.

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Bill Marler

JUNE 22, 2022

Today the FDA added two new Salmonella Outbreaks that have sickened 53 to its investigation chart. No other information – type of product or states of illness were added. Three other outbreaks – 2 Listeria and 1 E. coli O157:H7 (sickening a total of 41) are also listed as products not identified.

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Bill Marler

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

According to Food Safety News , the FDA is launching a new, temporary testing program for the romaine lettuce from commercial coolers in the Yuma, AZ, growing region. The FDA plans to begin collecting samples from commercial coolers in February and intends to continue sampling through the end of the romaine harvest season in Yuma.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I have a word for the FDA and CDC – “Transparency.”. Thanks to Food Safety News for reporting this out: The FDA has determined an outbreak of infections from Salmonella Typhimurium was from contaminated cantaloupe and declared its investigation over. . Additional information on this outbreak will be forthcoming,” according to the FDA.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now the question is will Congress and the FDA Commissioner take the recommendations to heart? FDA should increase the visibility and prominence of the Human Foods Program. . When compared to the medical products programs within FDA, the Human Foods Program continuously struggles for visibility and prominence.

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Bill Marler

JULY 28, 2022

The FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, is investigating consumer complaints of gastrointestinal illness and abnormal liver function that may be attributable to eating Daily Harvest French Lentil & Leek Crumbles frozen product. FDA’s investigation is ongoing, and more information will be provided as it becomes available.

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Food Safety Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, provided insight into the work of the Human Foods Program and how budgetary constraints are affecting its work. In an October 31 webinar, Jim Jones, U.S.

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Food Safety Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

These expert panels provide impartial scientific advice and recommendations to USDA, FDA and the CDC on public health issues related to food safety in the U.S. Without the input of these committees, we have little confidence that the food safety policies at USDA and FDA will, in fact, Make America Healthy Again.”

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2025

In response to external pressures, FDA has revoked its authorization for the use of red dye 3 in food. Despite its decision, the agency maintains that the available scientific information does not support claims of the colorant being harmful to human health through dietary exposure.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For questions related novel food determination and requirements, please contact Health Canada’s Food Directorate at: Submission Management and Information Unit Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch, Health Canada 251, Sir Frederick Banting Driveway, Postal Locator: 2202E Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9 Email: smiu-ugdi@hc-sc.gc.ca

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JANUARY 19, 2025

The FDA is amending its color additive regulations to no longer allow for the use of FD&C Red No. link] [link] FDA to Revoke Authorization for the Use of Red No. 3 in Food and Ingested Drugs Constituent Update January 15, 2025 The FDA is revoking the authorization for the use of FD&C Red No. FD&C Red No.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 19, 2023

CDC FDA’s onsite inspection of the Austrofoods facility in Ecuador has ended. However, the FDA investigation of the elevated lead levels in recalled cinnamon applesauce pouches continues. The FDA has tested multiple products and, based on the current evidence, there are no further products being added to the recall at this time.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The investigations are in a variety of stages, meaning that some outbreaks have limited information, and others may be near completion. Please direct your attention to those pages for the most up to date information on the investigation and for consumer protection information. Here is the link: [link].

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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. The FDA also published a draft “ Food Traceability List ,” which describes the foods that would be subject to the proposed requirements.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 11, 2022

Understandably, my nearly 350 clients sickened by Daily Harvest French Lentil + Leek Crumbles (and possibly additional products) are frightened and angered by the lack of information about the contaminant in the tara, that according the the FDA, has hospitalized over 100 with symptoms consistent with acute liver failure.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Product recalls, market withdrawals, and safety alerts are becoming more common, with over 1700 tracked by the FDA to date this year. In 2018, there were a combined 656 FDA and USDA recalls , and there has been an 83 percent increase in Class 1 recalls of meat and poultry alone since 2013.

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Bill Marler

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Here are just a sample of outbreaks based on information gathered by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Kansas State University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Date. In fact, the frequency with which this country’s fresh produce consuming public has been hit by outbreaks of pathogenic bacteria is astonishing.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 22, 2024

The FDA has already issued more than 50 food recalls in 2024, causing many consumers to worry about food safety – and raising an important question for the restaurant industry: Would we know exactly what to do in a recall situation? During a recall, your team should: Gather comprehensive information. Act quickly.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The lead level detected in the FDA sample of WanaBana apple cinnamon puree is 2.18 parts per million (ppm), which, for context, is more than 200 times greater than the action level the FDA has proposed in draft guidance for fruit purees and similar products intended for babies and young children.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2021

As of June 21, 2021, the SBA has informed over 2,900 applicants that their grant approval has been rescinded and that they will no longer be receiving funds. FDA Announces $134M Budget Increase : On June 7, 2021, the FDA released its Fiscal Year 2022 budget outlining key investments for food safety.

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Bill Marler

MAY 21, 2020

This is not meant as a criticism of my friends at the FDA or the good people at LGMA – California and Arizona – or at Western Growers, United Fresh or PMA. According to a report by the FDA released today, in November and December 2019 there were three E. But seriously, since leafy green E. coli O157:H7 foodborne illness outbreaks.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 13, 2020

Please refer to the FSIS and FDA websites for the latest recall information. USDA-FSIS will update the public health alert as more information becomes available. Suppliers and distributors that repackage raw onions should clean and sanitize any surfaces and storage bins that may have come in contact with recalled onions.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There is no dispute that Daily Harvest French Lentil + Leek Crumbles, with tara, caused a significant outbreak of acute liver failure according to both Daily Harvest and the FDA. Our investigation team will continue working with the FDA, the tara flour producer and others to help determine what specifically made people sick.”.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2022

FDA Foods Program Announces Priorities : On January 31, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a list of guidance topics that are a priority for the FDA Foods Program to complete before February 2022. Restaurants must be aware of all the recordkeeping requirements under the rule, or risk penalties.

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