FDA and USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) have established a Memorandum of Understanding to help transfer primary regulatory oversight over Siluriformes fish and fish products — including commercial catfish, basa, pangasius, and swai/tra — from FDA to FSIS.
The former manager of a peanut processing plant in Georgia that was linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak five years ago pleaded guilty Wednesday to seven criminal counts, including fraud.
UK researchers studying Salmonella Typhimurium have found that the bacteria strain uses glucose as its energy source when it invades the epithelial cells that line the human gut. They also learned that disrupting a key enzyme during glycolysis severely reduced S. Typhimurium's ability to reproduce in epithelial cells.
ISO (the International Organization for Standardization, based in Geneva, Switzerland) today invited stakeholders involved in the food chain who use, implement, or make reference to ISO 22000 — the International Standard on food safety management systems — to submit comments and feedback on the standard.
The FDA today made available the 4th Annual Reportable Food Registry (RFR) Report, which summarizes the Registry’s fourth year of operation (Sept. 8, 2012 – Sept. 7, 2013). The report found that the RFR logged in 1269 reports, underscoring RFR's importance in tracking patterns of food adulteration and helping to remove dangerous products from the marketplace.
In an effort to shore up the authenticity of Australian exports to China, former Boomers basketball player Andrew Vlahov and his business partner Grant Shaw have teamed up with Chinese IT company Invengo and consultants Deloitte to develop an app that detects authentic labels on wine and other goods.
A Trumansburg, NY cheese producer has been hit with a consent decree by a U.S. District Court due to Listeria contamination of its processing facility and its product, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).announced last week.
Two agencies under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) umbrella, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), announced May 2 that they have signed an agreement to . provide a more comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to address foodborne health hazards potentially associated with meat and poultry products.
Antimicrobial agents incorporated into edible films applied to foods to seal in flavor, freshness and color can improve the microbiological safety of meats, according to researchers in Penn State University's College of Agricultural Sciences.
In today's FDA Voice blog post, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials Michael Taylor and Howard Sklamberg discussed how the Agency is "reinventing" itself in conjunction with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and unveiled the Operational Strategy for Implementing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
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