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The New Jersey Department of Agriculture recently launched a new website, providing important information for producers about federal inspections. 

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has announced that the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule is now available in Chinese and Portuguese.

Foodborne illness outbreaks were scarce in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that trend is continuing for the first quarter of 2021.

The Alliance for Meat, Poultry and Seafood Innovation (AMPS Innovation) and the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) have jointly submitted comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in response to the agency’s Labeling of Foods Comprised of or Containing Cultured Seafood Cells Request for Information.

The Acting U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D. and Susan Mayne, Ph.D., Director, FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, recently released a statement about toxicity in baby foods and food for young children.

The virtual annual Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) conference, part of The Consumer Goods Forum, will take place from March 23–25, 2021.

In 2020, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) investigated almost 50 unregistered food businesses, which is more than double the amount from 2019. 

In January, Bakery Equipment Manufacturers and Allieds (BEMA) kicked of its first Baking Industry Forum (BIF) meeting of the New Year.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control recently published findings in EFSA Journal that showed that the number of people getting sick and dying as a result of foodborne outbreaks in Europe went up in 2019.

The International Journal of Infectious Diseases recently published “Outbreaks of Foodborne Salmonella Enteritidis in The United States 1990–2015: Epidemiologic and Spatial-temporal Trends Analyses" in the journal's February issue.