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While FDA continues to use this standard for assessing the safety of food packaging materials, changes are taking place.

Rules for the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food still represent a significant and comprehensive change to how food will reach consumers.  

The Menu Labeling Rule specifies that the nutritional information be displayed next to the name or price.

Most people consider bottled water to be a safe and healthy alternative to other packaged beverages.

An integrated food safety system should have a common vision, uniform standards, inspections and enforcement, uniform laboratory practices, adequate training, enhanced communications and federal oversight.  

Food companies must be wary of a new focus by the U.S. Department of Justice on food-related cases as increases in the risks and costs of producing food are on the horizon.

Human data on the potential health effects from consuming small amounts of trans fats are scant and do not support the assumption of no threshold.

The year 2015 was the first year that Food Safety Magazine embarked on a seemingly impossible feat—to track every single food product recall announced in the U.S. and Canada. Here's a look back at the year.