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FDA Plans to Issue Guidance on Natural Food Colorants, Other Priority Topics in 2025

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Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team
July 1, 2025

FDA’s Human Foods Program has published a proposed agenda for guidance document work to be advanced in 2025, prioritizing opiate alkaloids on poppy seeds, the use of food coloring from natural sources, and new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications, among other topics.


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FDA Finalizes Action Levels for Lead in Processed, Packaged Food for Babies and Young Children

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Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team
January 6, 2025

FDA issued a new final guidance for industry on the action levels for lead in processed food intended for babies and young children. Action levels are levels of a contaminant at which the agency may consider a food to be adulterated. 


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FDA Finalizes Action Level of 10 ppb for Inorganic Arsenic in Apple Juice

June 1, 2023

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a final guidance for industry, titled, Action Level for Inorganic Arsenic in Apple Juice, which identifies an action level of 10 parts per billion (ppb) for inorganic arsenic in apple juice. 


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FDA Sets Action Levels for Lead in Baby Foods as Part of Closer to Zero Initiative

January 24, 2023

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced new recommended action levels for lead in certain processed baby foods. The proposed action levels supports the Closer to Zero initiative to continually reduce babies’ and young children’s exposure to toxic heavy metals from food.


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Total Diet Study for 2018–2020 Reveals That No Foods Exceed FDA Action Levels

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Bailee Henderson
July 15, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released its Total Diet Study Report for Fiscal Years 2018–2020.


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FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Lead in Juice

April 27, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a draft guidance, Action Levels for Lead in Juice; Draft Guidance for Industry, for which it is now accepting comments.


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