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The 2020 Leafy Greens STEC Action Plan outlines steps the agency plans to take this year to advance the safety of leafy greens. 

The campaign features new web content, fact-sheets, and videos using common language, engaging graphics, and stories to provide information about genetically engineered foods, including information about the history of genetic modifications in agriculture.  

Paul Kiecker will now serve as Administrator of USDA FSIS.  

According to FDA, Jimmy John's has been "engaging in a pattern of receiving and offering for sale adulterated fresh produce, specifically clover sprouts and cucumbers."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that previously banned beef products from Brazil will now be approved for export to the U.S.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco) as the first participant in the FDA’s Voluntary Qualified Importer Program (VQIP) under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). 

The UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) has released a new scientific review that includes a new estimate on the number of foodborne illnesses that occur annually in the UK.

Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey were included in this installment of the Eurobarometer survey on food safety.  

This is the third and last installment of the draft guidance for the IA rule.  

CAFOs are believed to have been a potential contamination source in the 2018 outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 that was linked to romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma, AZ, growing region.