A final rule now permits the use of salt substitutes in foods with standards of identity (SOI) that specify salt (sodium chloride) as a required or optional ingredient.
3-A Sanitary Standards Inc. has published new editions of its standard for farm milk cooling and holding tanks, and its foundational hygienic equipment design standard.
As part of its Benchmarking process, the Consumer Goods Forum’s Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) has opened a new stakeholder consultation for the FSSC 22000 Version 6 standard.
Partly in response to a citizen petition from the American Bakers Association, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is revoking the standards of identity and quality for frozen cherry pie, effective April 15, 2024.
To encourage the use of Salmonella vaccines for poultry flocks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) intends to exclude current commercial vaccine subtypes of Salmonella confirmed in FSIS raw poultry samples from the calculation used to categorize establishments under the raw poultry Salmonella performance standards.
The SQF Institute (SQFI) intends to gather industry input at the upcoming SQF Unites conference to inform the creation of a new SQF edition, and has shared its process and proposed timeline for developing SQF Edition 10.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made available a Small Entity Compliance Guide to help explain the actions a small entity must take to comply with recent changes made to Milk and Cream Products and Yogurt Products; Final Rule To Revoke the Standards for Lowfat Yogurt and Nonfat Yogurt and To Amend the Standard for Yogurt.
