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 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.
A molecular sample-to-answer method developed by Rheonix Inc. and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enables low-level detection of Cyclospora in food and environmental samples.
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.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Tracy Fink of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) to discuss the Institute’s research, resources, and reach, as well as what to expect from the upcoming IFT FIRST conference taking place July 16–19, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois. Additionally, Bob Ferguson, President of Strategic Consulting Inc., speaks about his latest Food Safety Insights column on processors’ thoughts about the proposed reorganization of FDA's Human Foods program.
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.
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