Research scientists have discovered how harmless Escherichia coli gut bacteria in chickens can mutate—picking up the genes necessary to evolve, and thus causing infections in poultry and humans.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final guidance, Use of an Alternate Name for Potassium Chloride in Food Labeling, to advise food manufacturers that it intends to use "potassium salt" in the ingredient statement on food labels, instead of "potassium chloride."
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a series of three virtual one-day public meetings at the end of 2020 to discuss the recently released proposed rule "Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods" (Food Traceability Proposed Rule).
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration's (FDA's) CORE Response Teams recently released a table showing outbreak investigations that they are managing. Some of the investigations only have a small amount of information at this time, whereas others are nearly complete.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its annual Inspection Observation Data for 2020, and violations on the Foreign Supplier Verification Programs have increased.
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