Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team

The Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences’ (IAFNS) Fourth Annual Summer Science Symposium will be held on convene on June 4–5, 2024 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

A study of food safety inspections performed in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, and the U.S. has identified and described a common approach across countries.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now offers several resources to help state, local, territorial, and tribal jurisdictions complete a risk factor study as part of Standard 9 (Program Assessment) of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards.

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Robert Manning, recall management expert, author, and CEO of Liquid, about how to prevent, prepare for, and recover from food product recalls.

FDA will hold a one-day virtual public meeting on Data and Technology in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety on April 24, 2024 to better understand how the agency can leverage data and technology to advance food safety. The same day, FDA will also open a docket to collect public comment on the event topic.

The Singapore Food Agency has proposed amendments to federal regulations that would allow the use of new ingredients in infant formula, and would also extend the use of permitted food additives.

PFAS are sometimes used in pesticides as active substances or co-formulants. An analysis of EU pesticide residue monitoring data by Pesticide Action Network Europe shows that the average proportion of produce containing PFAS pesticide residues in the EU has nearly tripled over the last decade.

In this bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, Brittany Sambol of Wildtype Foods and Dr. Khyati Shah of Merck discuss scaling up in the cultivated meat and seafood sector, and how MilliporeSigma can support businesses during scale-up.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has published its Dirty Dozen list for 2024, describing the 12 fruits and vegetables most contaminated with pesticide residues, alongside its Clean Fifteen list, which contains the 15 commodities with the lowest amounts of pesticide residue.

ROCOL has announced it will be removing per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from the formulations of its entire FOODLUBE product range beginning April 2024.