Articles Tagged with ''FDA''

Practical tips to excel at snack and bakery facility food safety audits

March 13, 2018

The more plant personnel who participate in your facility’s food safety audit, the better. These educational experiences allow your staff to engage with the audit process and improve their food safety knowledge.

Food Safety

USDA, FDA announce coordination agreement

Plan is designed to streamline food rules enforcement through more cooperation

Casey Laughman

February 2, 2018

The USDA and FDA have announced a formal agreement designed to make food oversight more efficient by increasing cooperation between the two agencies.

FDA announces ‘enforcement discretion’ for specific FSMA regulations

Although FDA has temporarily relaxed some specific rules, processors are not necessarily off the hook, and may want to contact their food safety consultants.

Wayne Labs

January 8, 2018

The FDA intends to exercise enforcement discretion for certain provisions in four of the FSMA rules until it can work out issues presented in feedback from several entities or stakeholders, especially farms, packing facilities and importers.

2018 Predictions: Regulatory Outlook

Food Labeling and the Laws

Consumers aren't the only ones interested in non-GMO, "healthy" and clean label. Be advised that regulators are reading labels too

Steven Steinborn

December 28, 2017

If we start with what we know for sure will happen in 2018, this would be the last sentence of the article. Still, one can make a few educated guesses as a prelude to devising effective regulatory and business strategies 2018.

Unclear which agency should be inspecting catfish

GAO says the FDA and USDA’s FSIS need to get together on testing imported catfish for residual drugs.

December 20, 2017

The saga dates back to 2012 when the Government Accountability Office said that the responsibility for inspecting catfish should not be reassigned from FDA to the USDA. However, that’s not what happened.

Regulatory Watch

FDA amends carcinogenicity testing requirements

Updated regulations eliminate requirement that a sponsor conduct oral, chronic, dose-type studies.

Casey Laughman

July 27, 2017

The Food and Drug Administration is amending the regulations governing carcinogenicity testing requirements for food-producing animals.

What you need to know before an FDA visit

What your company needs to properly develop, document and implement before an investigation

Richard F. Stier, M.S.

June 15, 2017

To ensure an FDA inspection is handled properly, it is imperative procedures are in place to do so.

Advocates challenge FDA allowance of toxic chemical in food

June 12, 2017

Public health advocates recently used a little-known legal tool today to challenge a recent FDA move allowing a toxic chemical in food packaging. The groups filed an objection to FDA’s decision to continue to allow perchlorate in dry food packaging.

Food safety regulations extend to transportation

Peg Ray

May 18, 2017

As of April 6, 2017, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food rule goes into enforceable compliance.

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