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The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) has announced its Romaine Test and Learn initiative, a two-year food safety study commencing in October 2023, which will leverage LGMA members’ individual testing data to elicit meaningful, aggregated information to better understand potential microbial risks to leafy greens food safety.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) has updated its sampling program for cell-cultured meat and poultry products, providing new instructions to inspection personnel and enforcement officers.

Version 8 of the British Lion Code of Practice for eggs has been launched.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that popular artificial sweetener aspartame may be declared as a “possible carcinogen.”

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.”

The National Institute of Oilseed Products has formed a Product Integrity Committee in response to increasing incidents of food fraud within the oilseed industry worldwide.

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.

Since early 2022, CDC and FDA have investigated an ongoing Salmonella outbreak linked to Italian-style meats. The outbreak has affected at least 36 people across 17 states.

Alvinesa Natural Ingredients recently announced that it has achieved FSSC 22000 certification for food safety management systems (FSMS).

Companies UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat both recently announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave them a Grant of Inspection (GOI) and label approval to sell cultivated chicken.