The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a public Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) public meeting “International Capacity Building with Respect to Food Safety" on June 19, 2012, in Washington, D.C. ...More
On March 1, a new USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) rule went into effect requiring new labeling rules for key nutrition information for the most popular meats and poultry products. The panels provide consumers with sufficient information at the store to ...More
School-foodservice directors have begun rising to the task of crafting menus that deliver on-trend culinary merit and strong nutritional rubrics, all while staying within notoriously tight budgets. ...More
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is extending the implementation date for routine sampling of six additional strains of E. coli, known as non-O157 Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STECs) or “The Big Six," as adulterants to June 4, 2012. ...More
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is proposing a modernization of young chicken and turkey slaughter inspection in the United States by focusing FSIS inspection resources on the areas of the poultry production system that pose the greatest risk to food ...More
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is seeking comments on a proposed rule to modify the agency’s generic label approval process that would allow companies to use new labels or modify labels without first submitting such labels to FSIS. Under the proposed ...More
FDA is seeking comments on proposed FDA recall guidelines that have been published in the Federal Register and submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance. ...More
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has pushed back the Jan. 1, 2012 start date for the final rule that will require nutrition labeling of the major cuts of single-ingredient, raw meat and poultry products and ground or chopped meat and poultry products. The ...More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reopened its comment period for the proposed rule to amend regulations regarding phytosterols and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) health claims and labeling. ...More
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Oct. 3-4, 2011 will hold a referendum on proposed federal marketing order amendments regulating the handling of pistachios grown in Arizona, California and New Mexico. ...More
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