The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) recently published the 2024 Food Crime Strategic Assessment. Since the last report in 2020, the UK food supply chain has faced significant disruptions, causing the food crime landscape to change and creating new opportunities for fraud.

The newly formed Food Industry FSMA 204 Collaboration, comprising eight leading food industry member associations, aims to enhance industrywide awareness of the impending FDA Food Traceability Final Rule/FSMA 204.

Consumer Reports and More Union have petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to remove Lunchables food kits from the National School Food Lunch Program due to what the groups perceive as relatively high levels of lead and cadmium, as well as the presence of phthalates.

According to recently released U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspection reports, in the year leading up to the deadly Listeria monocytogenes outbreak caused by Boar’s Head deli meats, serious noncompliances with food safety regulations were observed regularly at the facility responsible.

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has endorsed the Chartered Trading Standards Institute’s (CTSI’s) Professional Competency in Feed qualification route.

Industry concerns about compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) impending Food Traceability Final Rule/FSMA 204 have been brought to light in a recently released report based on a series of roundtable discussions conducted in spring 2024 by the Reagan-Udall Foundation.

Recently introduced to U.S. Congress, the Federal and State Food Safety Information Sharing Act aims to grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to share crucial food safety information with state and local regulatory agencies to improve foodborne illness outbreak response.

A new public-private partnership, the Partnership for Food Traceability (PFT), has been launched to advance a shared vision for enhanced food traceability in alignment with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Food Traceability Final Rule/Section 204 of the Food Safety Modernization Act.

FSSC 22000 has achieved recognition against Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Benchmarking Requirements.

This article summarizes the results of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA’s) Pesticide Monitoring Program Report for fiscal year (FY) 2022, including the rates of violative samples, imported versus domestic foods, and chemicals of concern.