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Stakeholder Input Sought in Evaluation of FDA Human Foods Program

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:07:50 -0400

The Reagan-Udall Foundation opened a Stakeholder Portal on September 16 to collect perspectives and experiences with FDA's human foods program. In addition, the Foundation announced a public meeting of its food-focused Independent Expert Panel.

FDA Plans to Continue Remote Regulatory Assessments

Fri, 05 Aug 2022 14:07:24 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a draft guidance on the expanded use of remote regulatory assessments (RRAs).

FDA Extends Deadlines for Agricultural Water Proposed Rule

Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:40:56 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking that extends the compliance dates for pre-harvest agricultural water provisions as outlined in the recent 2021 agricultural water proposed rule.

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

hendersonb@bnpmedia.com (Bailee Henderson) — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:22:25 -0400

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

FDA Publishes Guidance on FSMA-Compliant Preventive Controls for Pet Food

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:18:48 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a final guidance document that is intended to help animal food manufacturers develop hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls for animal food in compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

FDA Updates HACCP Guidance for Fish

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:57:40 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated parts of its guidance on Hazards Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) for fish and fishery products.

FDA’s CFSAN Discusses Food Safety Successes, Challenges

hendersonb@bnpmedia.com (Bailee Henderson) — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:26:32 -0400

The Keynote at the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IAFNS) 2022 featured Dr. Susan Mayne, the Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who discussed the direction for, and challenges facing, the agency.

FDA Allows Abbott Nutrition to Resume Production, Releases Industry Guidance

hendersonb@bnpmedia.com (Bailee Henderson) — Tue, 17 May 2022 14:25:00 -0400

In light of the current infant formula supply shortage, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will enter a consent decree with Abbott Nutrition that will allow the company to resume production of formula products at its Sturgis, Michigan facility. FDA also released a guidance that will allow formula manufacturers and importers greater flexibility.

FSS 2022: Regulators Highlight Policy, Technology Advances at Town Hall

BlumeA@bnpmedia.com (Adrienne Blume, M.A.) — Fri, 13 May 2022 11:49:00 -0400

During the Thursday morning Town Hall at the 2022 Food Safety Summit, top food safety regulators from FDA, USDA, CDC, and AFDO discussed initiatives and advances in food traceability, food safety policy, recalls, pathogen monitoring, food safety culture, and a number of other timely areas.

FSS 2022: Building a Blueprint for Tech-Enabled Traceability

BlumeA@bnpmedia.com (Adrienne Blume, M.A.) — Fri, 13 May 2022 11:41:00 -0400

An interactive educational session with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday morning of the 2022 Food Safety Summit examined how advancing traceability and adopting new tracing technologies can help protect consumers from contaminated food.

FDA Addresses Shortage of Safe Infant Formula

Thu, 12 May 2022 00:04:23 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been working to increase the supply of infant and specialty formula products in the U.S., including working with Abbott Nutrition, the subject of a recent foodborne illness outbreak and subsequent recall.

FSS 2022: Urgency, Communication Needed to Improve the Future of Recalls

BlumeA@bnpmedia.com (Adrienne Blume, M.A.) — Wed, 11 May 2022 20:17:00 -0400

A panel of experts from regulatory, state agriculture, and consumer advocacy groups shared their views on recall modernization and improvement at a Wednesday educational session at the 2022 Food Safety Summit.

FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Lead in Juice

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:35:00 -0400

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.

Food Industry, NGOs, Consumers Urge FDA to Unify Food Program

hendersonb@bnpmedia.com (Bailee Henderson) — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 11:20:00 -0400

With a letter and a press conference, 29 food industry groups, consumer groups, and non-governmental organizations are urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to unify its food program under a deputy commissioner.

FDA Issues Final Guidance on Reconditioning of Fish and Fishery Products by Segregation

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:00:00 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final guidance for the seafood sector, “Guidance for Industry: Reconditioning of Fish and Fishery Products by Segregation.”

FDA Gives Webinar on Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement Plan

hendersonb@bnpmedia.com (Bailee Henderson) — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 09:23:00 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a webinar on April 13 on its Foodborne Outbreak Response Improvement Plan, which covered scientific context for the plan and its four core priorities.

FDA extends comment period for food traceability proposed rule, info collection provisions

spielmans@bnpmedia.com (Sharon Spielman) — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 09:08:00 -0500

The FDA has extended the comment period for the proposed rule entitled “Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods” and reopened the comment period for the information collection provisions until Feb. 22, 2021.

FDA requests info for labeling foods with cultured seafood cells

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:00:00 -0500

The FDA is requesting information for the labeling of foods made up of cultured seafood

FDA extends comment deadline to submit information on expansion of the rarely consumed raw list for uncommonly consumed produce

Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:03:00 -0500

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Request for Information (RFI) in August 2020 to open a docket for data and information related to produce known to have no or low reported consumption.

FDA releases additional resources related to the Food Traceability Proposed Rule

Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:50:00 -0500

Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a proposed rule to establish additional traceability recordkeeping requirements for certain foods.

Food Safety Summit - Town Hall: Q&A with Top Regulators and Public Health Leaders

parkere@bnpmedia.com (Liz Parker) — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0400

The Food Safety Summit continued on Wednesday, October 21, with a town hall entitled “Q&A with Top Regulators and Public Health Leaders.”

FDA launches voluntary pilot program to evaluate third-party food safety standards, meeting another milestone in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety

Fri, 23 Oct 2020 11:31:25 -0400

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is launching a voluntary pilot program to evaluate alignment of private third-party food safety audit standards with the food safety requirements in two regulations under the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)—the Preventive Controls for Human Food (PC Human Food) and the Produce Safety rules.

FDA establishes U.S. Agent Voluntary Identification System for food facilities

Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:01:15 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing guidance establishing a U.S. Agent Voluntary Identification System (VIS) for food facility registration.

FDA to hold webinar on The First 100 Days: New Era of Smarter Food Safety

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:53:34 -0400

Please join FDA for a webinar on Monday, October 26, 2020 from 3 to 4 p.m. on the highlights of the first 100 days since FDA issued its blueprint for the New Era of Smarter Food Safety.

FDA updates health and personal hygiene handbook for food employees

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:42:00 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released an updated version of the Employee Health and Personal Hygiene Handbook for retail food managers and food employees.

FDA, Mexican counterparts enhance food safety partnership

Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:05:52 -0400

On Monday, October 5, during a virtual ceremony, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its regulatory counterparts in Mexico enhanced a partnership to work together on food safety in both countries.

Some decaf coffees face contaminant and label issues

labsw@bnpmedia.com (Wayne Labs) — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0400

The Clean Label Project pushes for the use of decaffeination processes using carbon dioxide or the Swiss water process.

Implementing FSMA

parkere@bnpmedia.com (Liz Parker) — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 12:14:00 -0400

According to FDA, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is “transforming the nation’s food safety system by shifting the focus from responding to foodborne illness to preventing it.”

FDA releases results on sampling of dairy-free dark chocolate for milk allergen

Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:05:00 -0400

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today released results from sampling of domestically manufactured dark chocolate bars and dark chocolate chips labeled as “dairy free” or with similar claims.

Outbreak investigation of Cyclospora: Bagged salads (June 2020)

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:57:14 -0400

As of September 25, 2020, CDC has announced this outbreak is over.