Articles by Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team

The event will take place at MSU’s East Lansing, Michigan Campus and will be led by former FDA foods official Frank Yiannas, M.P.H.

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) is a unique food production system with its own food safety risks and considerations.

AB 1603 would prohibit the registration of pesticides containing intentionally added PFAS in the state.

Large-scale recycled manure use—a circular agriculture approach used to combat soil acidification that reduces crop yield—can lead to the accumulation of cadmium in soil, which is then taken up by rice crops, affecting food safety.

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to two industry leaders and Food Safety Summit Editorial Advisory Board members about managing food safety programs across large-scale, global operations; upcoming Summit sessions on imported food safety risks and food safety culture; and advice for early-career food safety professionals.

NEHA Thrive provides practical leadership tools alongside science-informed strategies for managing stress, burnout, and long-term career sustainability while helping strengthen leadership capacity, improve communication and decision-making, and reinforce resilience.

In 2025, FDA sampled domestic and imported honey to detect food fraud. Consistent with previous years, the rate of fraud was low, but still high enough to emphasize the ongoing vulnerability of honey to economically motivated adulteration.

The proportion of extensively drug-resistant isolates rose from 0 percent during 2011–2015 to 8.5 percent in 2023.

The updated Microbiology Laboratory Guidebook chapter on whole genome sequencing (WGS) of bacterial isolates now includes protocols for using both the Illumina MiSeq and MiSeq i100 sequencing platforms.

In a meeting with industry, the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (WVS) confirmed its intent to ban the botanical ashwagandha, a widely used dietary supplement and functional food/beverage ingredient.