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A summary of FDA's meeting on the New Era of Food Safety.

Amazon’s Grocery & Gourmet category was found to have multiple expired food products that had reportedly been shipped to online consumers.

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is meeting with stakeholders to discuss and plan the agency's New Era of Food Safety.

According to multiple reports, five major food retailers have joined to form the new Leafy Greens Safety Coalition in an effort to push the improvement of illness prevention and traceability.

This week, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union filed a federal lawsuit to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s new swine slaughter modernization rule that eliminates line speed limits in pork slaughter plants, ultimately giving inspection responsibility to said slaughter plants.

The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) has released its Foodborne Illness Source Attribution Estimates for 2017.

Registration opened today for the next Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Conference, to be held February 25–28, 2020 in Seattle, WA.  

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a food safety dashboard designed to track the impact of the seven foundational rules of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), measure their progress, and help us continue to refine our implementation.  

Today, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) announced plans to change its name next year. GMA will become the Consumer Brands Association (CBA) effective January 2020.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut has announced that Memet Beqiri, 32, owner and general manager of New England Meat Packing, LLC, and Debbie Smith, 60, the company’s former Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) coordinator/quality control officer, both pleaded guilty to falsifying numerous Escherichia coli test results.