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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final guidance, titled, Best Practices for Convening a GRAS Panel. GRAS panels evaluate the food safety of substances.

On January 1, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will open the Voluntary Qualified Importer Program (VQIP) application portal for fiscal year (FY) 2024.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a draft guidance that outlines a risk assessment approach to evaluate the microbial food safety risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) posed by new antimicrobial animal drugs. The draft guidance is open for comment.

The European Commission has established maximum levels for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in certain foods.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has (CFIA) has updated its Automated Shipment Inspection Status Search Tool (ASSIST) with an enhanced feature called the CFIA Shipment Tracker for Food, Plant, and Animal products.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently highlighted various fellowship projects across Europe, providing insight into the recent and ongoing work of EFSA in the realm of food safety risk assessment for various chemical and microbiological hazards. 

To help growers mitigate food safety risks posed by wild birds, an ongoing study funded by the Center for Produce Safety is examining the prevalence of different species in agriculture and whether they carry and transmit foodborne pathogens.

Researchers have developed a way to remove Staphylococcus aureus from milk using magnetic micro-robots loaded with immunoglobulins, which could be scaled for industry use and adapted to other foodborne pathogens.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an assignment to collect and test imported honey in 2021 and 2022 for economically motivated adulteration (also known as food fraud), finding 10 percent of samples to be adulterated.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) has established a uniform appeals time period requirement for the filing of appeals of certain FSIS food safety inspection decisions or actions.