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16 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The new rules establish enforceable food safety standards for produce farms and make importers accountable for verifying that imported food meets US safety standards...
22 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Stewart Parnell, a former executive of the Peanut Corporation of America, was given the longest sentence ever handed out in the US for a food poisoning outbreak...
14 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalised the first two of seven major rules under the bipartisan FDA Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA)...
16 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Food manufacturers will have 3 years to remove partially hydrogenated oils, the primary source of trans fat in processed foods, from products sold in the US...
26 February 2015 | By The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service have developed an improved method for analyzing outbreak data to determine which foods are responsible for illness related to four major foodborne bacteria...
23 December 2014 | By Chad Gray, R&D Food Technologist – Lipids Division, Kerry
A new food era was born in America on 8 November 2013, when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made a tentative announcement that the presence of partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) in food and beverage offerings will no longer be ‘generally recognised as safe’.
24 September 2014 | By The Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food – especially Salmonella in fresh produce...
18 September 2014 | By The U.S Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a new cooperative agreement with the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture related to the Food Safety Modernization Act...
7 August 2014 | By The Food and Drug Administration
All foods labeled gluten-free must meet all requirements of the gluten-free labeling final rule published in August 2013...
23 May 2014 | By The Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is extending the comment period by 60 days, to August 1, 2014, for the following two proposed rules that appeared in the FEDERAL REGISTER...
21 May 2014 | By The Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration announced the new food additive, advantame, is safe for use as a general-purpose sweetener and flavor enhancer in food, except meat and poultry...
28 February 2014 | By The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed to update the Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods to reflect the latest scientific information, including the link between diet and chronic diseases such as obesity and heart disease...
21 February 2014 | By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC is collaborating with public health and regulatory officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections (listeriosis)...
7 February 2014 | By The Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration released an interim final rule that sets standards for manufacturers to produce safe infant formula that supports healthy growth...
20 January 2014 | By FDA
Proposed rule marks the 6th issued under FDA Food Safety Modernization Act this year...
