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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its annual Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program Report for Fiscal Year 2020 (FY 2020).

A coalition of consumer organizations, industry, and government officials has written to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), urging the agency to expand the planned external review of its food safety program to include FDA’s Center of Veterinary Medicine.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new dashboard for the Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods (LAAF) program.

On a webinar with the Alliance for a Stronger FDA, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Deputy Commissioner, Dr. Janet Woodcock, discussed FDA’s data and information processing modernization efforts.

On Monday afternoon at the 2022 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting, representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) provided U.S. regulatory updates on food safety.

Assuring food safety in this "New Era of Smarter Food Safety" and with the increasing use of whole genome sequencing provides many new challenges for food safety professionals. While these challenges are many and multi-faceted, it is helpful to look back to the "old" era of food safety, to some of the foundational concepts in the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that are still in force today. In this article, the authors focus first on one of many important legal terms that is extremely important and often misunderstood: adulteration.

FDA has announced the fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023) user fee rates for the Voluntary Qualified Importer Program and the Accredited Third-Party Certification Program.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration provided an update about its ongoing Cyclospora cayetanensis prevention and research efforts under the Cyclospora Prevention, Response and Research Action Plan, including the publication of an article in Food Safety Magazine. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is offering a webinar for stakeholders discuss Food Facility Registration, Biennial Renewal, and obtaining an acceptable Unique Facility Identifier (UFI).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will resume its sampling and testing activities to inform a developing food safety prevention strategy for fresh and frozen berries.