New Law Toughens Food Allergen Labeling
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Food businesses in England and Northern Ireland... Full Story
Bill Would Legalize Retail Raw Milk Sales, Exempt Smallest Herds From Safety Regs
Category: Dairy, Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Following what a raw milk producer described as... Full Story
New U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Deal Maintains Status Quo on Food Safety
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada-Agreement... Full Story
Resident Salmonella in Food Plant Sparks Warning Regarding Cereal Production
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - A company that provides a variety of goods and... Full Story
H-E-B Recalls Ice Cream, Sorbets for Risk of Metal Bits
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - H-E-B is recalling two variety packs of Creamy Creations... Full Story
Food processors to agree to cease production over Listeria scare
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Operators of two New York food processing companies agreed to stop preparing foods until... Full Story
Unfinished Business: Keeping the Focus on Food Safety
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - In just the past few months, outbreaks involving... Full Story
Country Celebrates Another Birthday with no Delivery for Top Jobs
Category: USDA
(Food Safety News) - Yesterday was he 242nd birthday of the United ... Full Story
Producer of recalled Honey Smacks kept secret amid outbreak
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - As public health officials in other countries... Full Story
Health director says all outbreak victims drank raw milk
Category: Dairy
(Food Safety News) - County officials rescinded... Full Story
Food Safety Risks, Costs, Waste Likely To Increase In ‘Clean’ Era
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Two veteran food science and human nutrition experts at Iowa State University... Full Story
Survey Probes Food Industry Fears About Food Safety Changes
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - What keeps food safety and quality operators up at night? Its a question about feelings... Full Story
Perdue’s Plan Pleases Business, Concerns Food Safety Experts
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue is making a peculiar argument for... Full Story
USDA’s Temporary Food Safety Administrators Are In Demand
Category: Food Safety, USDA
(Food Safety News) - During the first month of holding down USDA’s top two food safety jobs on an... Full Story
FAO urges United Nations to establish World Food Safety Day
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - The General Assembly of United Nations is scheduled to consider establishing a World... Full Story
Letter From The Editor: Fill USDA’s Top Food Safety Posts Now
Category: USDA
(Food Safety News) - A couple days ago we ran Al Almanza official farewell message. He’s been the indispensable man of USDA’s Food... Full Story
Next Up for Ag Gag: Appeal to 10th U.S. Circuit Expected Soon
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - During oral arguments before an appellate panel in Seattle in May, questions... Full Story
FSIS, FDA Leadership Does Yearly Lounge Act Before IAFP
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Stephen Ostroff, deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at the... Full Story
President Trump Likely to Sign Popular Agro-Terrorism Bill
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - President Donald J. Trump is shortly expected to sign H.R. 1238, also called the “Securing our Agriculture and Food Act... Full Story
More Independence for the European Food Safety Authority
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Ever since the European Food Safety Authority was founded 15 years ago... Full Story
Ontario Court Could Permanently Shut Down Raw Milk Sales
Category: Dairy
(Food Safety News) - Raw milk advocates on both sides of the 48th parallel are worried about the outcome... Full Story
New Leadership at USDA, FDA Might Increase Outside Meetings
(Food Safety News) - Poultry, antibiotics, Ionophores and activities with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency were among the... Full Story
USDA Reorganization Plan Could Reduce Food Safety Protections
Category: Food Safety, USDA
(Food Safety News) - A seemingly minor component of the USDA reorganization plan released last week could have a negative impact on food safety as the plan gets implemented. Much of the focus has been on the creation of a new undersecretary for trade position, but the plan also calls for the establishment of an interagency committee that would coordinate agricultural trade policy... Full Story
New FDA Commissioner Reassigns Inspectors by Specialty
Category: FDA
(Food Safety News) - New Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is reassigning inspectors based on what they inspect instead of where they inspect it, as has been the plan for four years... Full Story
Top Food Safety Regulators Say D.C. Transition Going Smoothly
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - America’s top cops in food safety gathered for a “Town Hall” Thursday morning at the 2017 Food Safety Summit. They let the attendees know that if they were worried about the transition in government, they can forget about it. From the states’ perspective... Full Story
FSMA Tops ‘Hot Topics’ at 2017 Food Safety Summit Keynote
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - On a keynote panel mostly about the angst being felt around food safety, Costco’s Craig Wilson was the calmest guy in the house. And why not? When Wilson, Costco Wholesale Corporation’s vice president for food safety, asked those in the 1,000-seat theater if any of them had Costco cards, half to two-thirds raised their hands... Full Story
Senate Confirms Scott Gottlieb as FDA Commissioner
(Food Safety News) - Scott Gottlieb was confirmed Tuesday by the Senate as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with a vote of 57-42. He assumes command of an FDA charged with overseeing the $2.4 trillion pharmaceutical, food, medical device, veterinary products and tobacco industries... Full Story
U.S. Signs Reciprocal Food Safety Agreement with Australia
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has signed an arrangement with the... Full Story
Should the Boost in Funding for Organic Farming Survive in the New Administration?
Category: Organic
(Food Safety News) - President Obama tripled the budget and staffing at the offices of the USDA’s National Organic Program (NOP), only to see American organic acreage flatline during his tenure. The $9.1 million might seem like a rounding error for Washington D.C. But what 43 organic staffers actually did during Obama’s tenure will surprise you. Did they weed out fraud, make organic food better... Full Story
Secretary of Agriculture Perdue’s Inbox is Filled to the Brim
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is likely less than a week away from being confirmed by the U.S. Senate... Full Story
Food Safety Insecurity Used as a Hook Against Regulatory Reform
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - Each side has just the congressional recess left to practice its hyperbole for the coming Senate fight over how... Full Story
New Advice for European Union on Added Sugars Due in 2020
Category: Food Safety, Sugar
(Food Safety News) - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is on schedule to provide new scientific advice... Full Story
Sustainable Organics Group Urges Support for Soil-Free Growing
Category: Organic
(Food Safety News) - In advance of the National Organics Standards Board meeting in April, the board’s... Full Story
Raw Milk Still Looking for Wins as Legislative Season Nears End
Category: Dairy
(Food Safety News) - Legislatures in almost a dozen states this year are considering whether to permit sales in one form or another of raw milk, which public health officials say is dangerous because it has not been pasteurized to remove harmful pathogens. But as many of those sessions wind down, it doesn’t look like there will be many raw milk bill... Full Story
‘Filthy Food Bill’ Draws Fire From Host of Food Safety Advocates
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Everyone likes safe food. Polls show consumers want food safety to be a top priority... Full Story
Domestic – To – Defense Spending Shift May Spare Food Safety
Category: Food Safety, Policy, USDA
(Food Safety News) - It does not appear that any of the $54 billion President Trump wants to shift to defense from domestic programs will be coming... Full Story
Trump Sheds Little Light on Food Safety Plans; Names Advisers
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - Even though President Donald Trump did not mention food safety in his first speech before a joint session of Congress... Full Story
Raw Milk Bill Part of Package to Boost Farm and Ranch Income
Category: Dairy
(Food Safety News) - The bill to make the direct sale of raw milk legal in Montana is part of a package to boost farm and ranch incomes in the Big Sky State... Full Story
Faces of Food Safety: Meet Michael Partridge of the USDA
Category: Food Safety, USDA
(Food Safety News) - Michael Partridge is a Consumer Safety Inspector (CSI) serving in the Office of Field... Full Story
Federal Hiring Freeze Disrupts USDA’s Food Safety Testing
Category: Food Safety, USDA
(Food Safety News) - As the federal government continues the transition that comes every time a new administration moves into the White House, a hiring freeze and an order from President Donald Trump that temporarily puts new regulations on hold are having varying consequences for food safety efforts... Full Story
Top Food Safety Job and Others Remain to be Filled at USDA
Category: Food Safety, USDA
(Food Safety News) - With the somewhat tardy appointment of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue as secretary of agriculture combined with Senate Democrats taking their time with the confirmation process, there’s going to be a backup of some other important appointments at USDA and across the federal government. And the backup is occuring... Full Story
Dairy Industry Seeks Trump’s Help with Canada under NAFTA
(Food Safety News) - U.S. dairy organizations and the state departments of agriculture across the country turned to President-elect... Full Story
Food Safety Expertise Could Trump Ho-Hum Ag Appointment
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - One of the nation’s past top food safety officials might be named Secretary of Agriculture by President-elect Donald J. Trump. Cuban-born Texan Professor Elsa Murano, who served as U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety in the administration of President... Full Story
Leadership Shake-Up Begins For All 15 Federal Food Safety Agencies
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - The 15 federal agencies that together enforce at least 30 federal food safety laws are... Full Story
Trump Must Decide if COOL is “Best for America”
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - As a surrogate speaker last August for then candidate Donald J. Trump, former Ohio Congressman Bob McEwen gave a fiery speech to a gathering of independent activist cattlemen from 18 states gathered at the Little America Hotel in Cheyenne, WY... Full Story
Controversies loom for National Organic Standards Board
Category: Food Safety, Organic
(Food Safety News) - When the National Organic Standards Board meets this week in St. Louis, its 15 members... Full Story
‘Known Unknown’ Concerns Future of Food Safety Investment
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - Whether you like him or hate him, former U.S. Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld is recognized to this day for explaining reality to war-waiting reporters by saying: “There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns... Full Story
World’s Food Facilities Must Renew their Registrations to Distribute in U.S.
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - One of the biggest enforcement tools the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... Full Story
FDA seeks comments; extends food safety deadlines
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Today the government is scheduled to open a six-month public comment period... Full Story
Nutrition Facts Label to Get Major Updates
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - For the first time since it was developed in the early 1990s, the Nutrition Facts label is getting a new look. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday introduced plans for updating the label to include larger serving Full Story
NY Congressman Reintroduces Bill to Close Trans Fat Labeling Loophole
Category: Grains, Miscellaneous, Oilseeds, Policy
(Food Safety News) - On Nov. 22, Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) reintroduced a bill that would require clearer labeling of Full Story
Confusing Food Date Labels Lead to Unnecessary Food Waste
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - Here’s a surprising little secret: You know all those dates you see on food products — sell by, use by, Full Story
China’s Food Safety Concerns Might Spill New Zealand’s Milk
Category: Dairy, Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - After tons of its whey protein concentrate used in baby formula was found to be contaminated Full Story
Senate Approves Farm Bill Without Major Food Safety Amendments
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - The Senate approved a farm bill on Monday evening 66 to 27. The legislation, which has a $955 billion price tag over the next decade, would end direct payments Full Story
As FDA Seeks Fees to Fund Food Safety, Much of Industry Remains Opposed to Idea
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - While the Obama administration continues to make it clear that it will look to registration, Full Story
GMO Labeling Forces Look for a Win After Two Defeats
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - With the defeat of California’s Proposition 37 last November and the recent signing of House Full Story
Another Raw Milk Bill Being Prepared in America’s Dairy State
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - For the first time since former Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed a bill in 2010 to legalize the sale of unpasteurized milk in America’s dairy state, proponents in Wisconsin are getting their ducks in a row for another serious try. A Republican state senator who authored a failed 2011 raw milk bill says he will be introducing a new proposal for consideration by the Wisconsin Legislature, which is meeting in year-round session Full Story
The Sequestration and the Food Safety Modernization Act
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - Under the sequester, the government last week implemented across-the-board Full Story
GMO Labeling Bill Introduced in U.S. Congress
Category: Miscellaneous, Policy
(Food Safety News) - Today Colorado’s Jared Polis will announce, outside a reborn organic retail store in Full Story
Comment Period for FSMA Provisions Extended
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday announced it would extend the public comment period for the information collection provisions associated with two proposed Food Safety Modernization Act rules by three months. Full Story
The Best of Food Safety in Education
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - This week, Food Safety News is acknowledging leaders who help keep our food supply safe Full Story
State Legislative Season Means Raw Milk Changes Are Possible
(Food Safety News) - The annual raw milk games are underway in state capitols around the country, with this year’s Full Story
GMO Labeling Campaign Promises To Be Back in 2014
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - The failed California Right to Know campaign says it will be back in 2014 with another ballot initiative for labeling genetically engineered foods. It lost last November when a majority of California voters opposed Full Story
GMO Labeling Campaign Promises To Be Back in 2014
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - The failed California Right to Know campaign says it will be back in 2014 with another Full Story
Campaign to Label GM Foods Moves To Washington State
Category: Food Safety, Policy
(Food Safety News) - More than enough signatures were filed in Washington State, 24 hours before today’s deadline, to send an initiative to the Legislature that would require the labeling of genetically engineered foods sold at retail. Full Story
Nation’s Largest Raw Milk Dairy Sues FDA Over Interstate Ban
Category: Dairy
(Food Safety News) - Organic Pastures, the nation’s largest raw milk dairy, has launched a lawsuit against the Full Story
Private Company Has GRAS Information FDA Might Not Have
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - To the long history of determining which food additives are “Generally Recognized as Safe” Full Story
U.S. Third In Food Safety After Israel and France
Category: Miscellaneous
(Food Safety News) - Safety is almost an asterisk in the Global Food Security Index, recently released by DuPont and the Economist Intelligence Unit. Full Story
Adminstration Threatens Veto for House Approptiations Bill
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - The Obama administration is threatening to veto a house agriculture spending bill that would cut funding for the U.S. FDA and provide a small increase for food safety funding. Full Story
2012 Farm Bill Advances Under Pressure Over Healthy Food
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - If the USDA wants us to "eat healthy" by filling up half of our plates with fruits and vegetables Full Story
FDA Says Just Don’t Call It “Corn Sugar”
Category: Sugar
(Food Safety News) - High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) cannot be called "corn sugar," Full Story
U.S.D.A. moves to boost U.S. sugar supply
(Food Business News) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture took action to increase the 2011-12 (fiscal year 2012) U.S. sugar supply through Full Story
House Budget Seeks Steep Spending Cuts
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service could Full Story
FDA Needs More Resources for Food Safety
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg Thursday warned Full Story
Food Industry Continues to Oppose Fees to Fund FDA
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - There seems to be no disagreement that the U.S. Food Full Story
FDA Issues Interim Rule on Record Access
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an interim final rule on record-keeping by food firms to make current regulation consistent with FDA's expanded access to records, which was granted by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act in January 2011. Full Story
The Cost of Cutting Food Safety
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - There's no money for . . ." well you name it. Full Story
Do more food inspectors really mean a better food safety system?
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - With the ongoing economic crisis there Full Story
No Food Safety Fees
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - Leading food industry groups are urging Full Story
The Food Safety Modernization Act – One Year Later
Category: Policy
(Food Safety News) - Just over a year ago, President Obama used 15 pens to sign the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law. Full Story
FDA Budget Hangs in Balance as Lawmakers Work on Deal
Category: Policy
Neither federal food safety agency knows what their budget will be this year Full Story
