The 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) gave FDA new authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested, and processed. FSMA grants FDA the authority to impose mandatory recalls and has paved the way for the issuance of more than a dozen rulemakings and at least ten guidance documents. FDA's New Era of Smarter Food Safety builds on the work done to implement FSMA.
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.
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.
Antares Vision Group has launched its new Food Safety Solution, a cloud-based platform designed to ensure regulatory compliance, precision traceability, and supply chain transparency for food and beverage companies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold an informational webinar on August 6, 2024 on basic Produce Safety Rule requirements for growing, harvesting, packing, and holding the most common types of mushrooms, as well as specialty mushrooms.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by milk and dairy safety experts from FDA, CDC, and NCIMS to mark 100 years since the Pasteurized Milk Ordinance (PMO) was adopted. We discuss the requirements and public health impact of PMO, the increasing consumer interest in raw milk and dairy, and the regulatory futures of milk and dairy safety and the PMO.
In the past week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published an updated list of its Human Foods Program priority guidance topics, resources to help industry comply with the Food Traceability Final Rule (FSMA 204), and a new Employee Health Policy Tool for food establishments.
A coalition of key food industry stakeholder groups and consumer protection organizations has written a letter urging Congress to reject two bills that would undermine the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) FSMA 204, also known as the Food Traceability Final Rule.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a proposed exemption for certain cottage cheese products from the requirements of the Food Traceability Final Rule, fulfilling Subpart 204 of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA 204).
LSG Sky Chefs has selected Trustwell to develop its traceability recordkeeping system, which will bring the company into compliance with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Food Safety Modernization Act, Subpart 204 (FSMA 204).