On June 29, 2023, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists voted to make Cronobacter sakazakii a nationally notifiable disease, requiring health departments in the U.S. to track and report cases of C. sakazakii to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
FAO has prepared a short factsheet for food safety authorities to grasp the contents of a previously released publication, titled, “Food Safety Aspects of Cell-Based Food.”
A new report on preliminary 2022 data from the U.S. Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) finds that enteric infections in the U.S. caused by eight major foodborne pathogens have generally returned to or exceeded levels observed in 2016–2018, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India recently established the National Training Center for Food Safety to improve knowledge and skills in the field of food safety and standards, with an emphasis on cracking down on food adulteration, and launched an app to train street food vendors.
A new food safety law was drafted and submitted for review in China, with the goal of improving the country’s ability to ensure food safety and prevent incidents.
Following a One Health approach, Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial governments have made a 5-year commitment for concerted action to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through ten shared priority actions across five pillars. The action plan provides a 5-year (2023–2027) blueprint for strengthening Canada's collective AMR preparedness and response across the One Health spectrum.
According to new tests by Consumer Reports, although the amounts of lead, arsenic, and cadmium in baby foods appear to be getting lower, the overall risk hasn’t changed much in the last five years.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has provided updates on its proposal to create a unified Human Foods Program (HFP), which includes a new model for the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has posted answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) and additional tools to provide industry with more information about the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Food Traceability Final Rule, also known as FSMA 204.
As part of an effort to reduce cases of salmonellosis attributable to poultry products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) conducted a study with the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) laboratories to gather data on not-ready-to-eat (NRTE) breaded stuffed chicken products purchased at retail stores.
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