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In September 2020, Caribé Juice, maker of cold-pressed, HPP'd Caribbean fruit and veggies sourced, announced its acquisition of WTRMLN WTR, maker of cold-pressed, HPP'd watermelon juice sourced from "Ugly Fruit," typically discarded by the food industry.

The Food Safety Summit continued on Wednesday, October 21, with a town hall entitled “Q&A with Top Regulators and Public Health Leaders.”

Trader Joe's has been alerted by their supplier of Trader Joe’s Gluten Free Battered Halibut (SKU# 50382) that product with the code 537312620 BEST IF USED BY NOV/05/2021 C—sold only in CT, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, NE, NH, NY, OH, RI, TN, VT, WI—contains wheat and milk, which are not declared on the label. 

The first-ever Virtual Food Safety Summit occurred last week, from Monday, October 19 through Thursday, October 22. 

The Food Safety Summit continued on Wednesday, October 21, with a session entitled “Food Fraud Prevention – Introduction, Implementation, and Management.”

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is launching a voluntary pilot program to evaluate alignment of private third-party food safety audit standards with the food safety requirements in two regulations under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)—the Preventive Controls for Human Food (PC Human Food) and the Produce Safety rules.

The Food Safety Summit continued on Tuesday, October 20, with a keynote presentation entitled “Back to Basics: Consumer-Focused Food Safety.”