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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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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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

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

JULY 29, 2022

Over the last 30 years I have gotten to know many that work or worked at both the FDA and CFIA. We are testing a variety of Daily Harvest and Revive products and have shared the results with both the FDA and Daily Harvest. So, FDA, CFIA, what the hell are you doing?

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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. Generally speaking, FDA continues to leave a wide range of discretion to food service providers. economy, and the Food Code impacts virtually every American. goes uneaten.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To inform resourcing changes and program improvements, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking public input on its current approach to managing FDA certification for the export of human food products regulated by the agency.

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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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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The FDA is alerting parents and caregivers about two varieties of LittleOak infant formulas that the company is currently recalling. For example, the formulas contain some ingredients that the FDA has not yet evaluated to determine if they are safe for infant formula. food safety and nutritional standards.

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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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JULY 12, 2022

We have asked all to contact the FDA, and many have offered leftover product (opened and unopened) to test. Where the FDA has not offered to test, we are testing. We will provide those test results to the FDA and Daily Harvest. FDA, time to update your chart. Hospitalizations: 42. Last illness onset: June 21, 2022.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The FDA is reporting today for the first time an active investigation to a Listeria Outbreak that has sickened 20. The FDA continues to investigate a Salmonella Thompson outbreak that has sickened 93. Of 214 people with information available, 66 (31%) have been hospitalized and no deaths have been reported.

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Bill Marler

JULY 14, 2022

Here is the latest from the FDA: Case Counts. Estimate based on Consumer Complaint and CAERs reports received by the FDA. Thank you also providing leftover product to both the lab we are using and the FDA as we search for the common contaminate that is causing these common symptoms. Total Adverse Illness Events: 277*.

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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. Between 1996 and 2020, the FDA reported 52 foodborne illness outbreaks linked to sprouts, which are produced in conditions ideal for pathogen growth.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

FDA provided an update on the E.coli STEC linked to onions served on fast food chain hamburgers. FDA provided this about the investigation - "At this time, one FDA sample of recalled onions has tested positive for E. More information will be provided in this update as it becomes available."

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Food Safety News

FEBRUARY 29, 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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Food Safety Tech

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

are required to register the facility with the FDA. The FDA will consider the registration of a food facility to be expired if a facility’s registration is not renewed by December 31, 2024. FSMA requires facilities to submit additional information to the FDA and to renew their registrations every other year. to 6:00 p.m.

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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. Tested Products: To date, the FDA has tested 9 samples, representing the 9 different products listed below, and found them to contain yellow oleander. Additional sample analysis is pending.

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Bill Marler

JUNE 30, 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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MARCH 1, 2024

FDA issued an update on lead contaminated applesauce. Current Update February 29, 2024 After additional analysis of the cinnamon collected from the manufacturer in Ecuador (Austrofoods), FDA has confirmed that the lead and chromium previously detected in the cinnamon are from lead chromate.

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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. The post FDA Announces Public Meeting on Modernizing Food Recalls appeared first on FoodSafetyTech.

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Food Safety Tech

MARCH 5, 2024

On March 5, the FDA issued the final guidance “ Dietary Supplements: New Dietary Ingredient Notification Procedures and Timeframes: Guidance for Industry.” The new guidance is intended to help manufacturers and distributors of NDIs and dietary supplements prepare and submit new dietary ingredient notifications (NDINs) to the FDA.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 2, 2021

“HACCP: A systematic approach to the identification, evaluation, and control of food safety hazards.” – So says the FDA. This is the latest step in the agency’s implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and it proposes to replace some of the existing requirements for agricultural water in the Produce Safety Rule (PSR).

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Food Safety Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Yuka, a mobile app that provides users with information about product labels, now alerts users of active product recalls issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

The FDA has reviewed and supports NCDHHS’s analytical findings and found that analytical results at this level could result in acute toxicity. The FDA has shared the results with the firm and on October 31, 2023, Wanabana LLC initiated a voluntary recall of all WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree Pouches.

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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. Register her e.

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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. After the inspection, FDA investigators issued a Form 483 (FDA-483), Inspectional Observations.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The agency has not released any patient information, including where they live. FDA investigators have begun traceback efforts, but the agency is not yet releasing information about what food or foods are being traced. The FDA has not started any sample testing related to investigating this outbreak.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It is good that FDA and FSIS has been being more transparent on what is “cooking” in outbreak investigation. Here are the FDA Reports – Salmonella, Listeria, E. Of 13 people with ethnicity information available, 11 are of Eastern European background or speak Russian. One mystery Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak has sickened 254.

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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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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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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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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The company did not immediately recall the products or issue any formal communication to inform customers about the potential Listeria contamination. The charges announced today show that if an individual violates food safety rules or conceals relevant information, we will seek to hold them accountable,” said Judy McMeekin, Pharm.D.,

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MARCH 6, 2024

In response to the problem with elevated levels of lead in cinnamon in children’s applesauce and recalls of products in the fall of 2023, the FDA initiated a review of ground cinnamon and has issued warnings. The FDA is advising consumers to throw away and to not buy these ground cinnamon products. Greenbriar International, Inc.

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Food Safety Tech

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The FDA has rolled out a third wave of new tools and answers to FAQs to inform stakeholders about the Food Traceability Rule and help covered entities come into compliance. The post FDA Provides Additional FAQs and Tools for the Food Traceability Rule appeared first on FoodSafetyTech.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

FSN is the greatest source of consumer health information I have found. My family “pours over” the wealth of information you provide in each email we receive. The FDA has begun traceback and sample collection in an outbreak of E. The FDA has not reported how the product became contaminated. For that, we are thankful.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 25, 2024

This just came up on the FDA Outbreak Table: What is Listeria? About Listeria – a complete online resource for Listeria information Family Health Guide About Listeria infection, or Listeriosis (pdf) Listeria News Listeria is a bacterium that causes a serious infection called listeriosis. Listeria bacteria are most found in raw foods.

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