In a letter addressed to key U.S. congressional leaders, the Safe Food Coalition (SFC) expressed its opposition to the DIRECT Act, the PRIME Act, and the New Markets Act, which would lift prohibitions on the interstate sale of meat and poultry from state inspected facilities and allow commercial sales from uninspected “custom” slaughter facilities.
The Alliance for a Stronger FDA has published its “ask” for Fiscal Year 2025 funding for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is $214 million more than the Presidential budget request submitted by FDA for FY 2025.
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Accountability will hold a hearing on April 11, 2024 to question FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. about the agency’s failure to prevent recent food safety crises.
The School Lunch Integrity Act of 2024, sponsored by Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Jon Tester (D-MT), would ban cell-cultivated meat from use in school meals.
In light of the recent string of lead poisoning cases in children across the U.S. linked to fruit puree pouches contaminated with lead and chromium, members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have written a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to express concerns and request an immediate briefing.
Recently introduced to the U.S. Senate, the Stephen Hacala Poppy Seed Safety Act would prohibit the sale of poppy seeds that contain harmful levels of opiates and require the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue regulations that establish a maximum level of contamination
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has released a statement about the possibility of a government shutdown and the risks it would pose to food safety in the U.S., specifically through the halting of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspections.
The Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act (EFSIA) was recently reintroduced to U.S. Congress. If passed, the bill would allow U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators to enter concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and conduct microbial sampling to trace foodborne illness outbreaks.
U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) has reintroduced the Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act, which would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to investigate corporate livestock feedlots and confinement operations implicated in foodborne illness outbreaks.
A recent bill submitted by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Appropriations included text mandating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to unify its Human Foods program under a single Deputy Commissioner and urges a new approach for Listeria monocytogenes regulation, among other directives.
