The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a document that provides an overview of the agency’s ongoing efforts to advance the safety of produce imported into the U.S.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we interview Conrad Choiniere, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Analytics and Outreach at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), about his work leading FDA's Toxic Elements Working Group, as well as the agency’s efforts and considerations related to the Closer to Zero initiative, which aims to reduce the health risks posed by toxic elements in the U.S. baby food supply. We also review the results of FDA's Total Diet Study (TDS) related to toxic elements in baby food samples.
Additionally, we spoke to Kruti Ravaliya, M.S., Consumer Safety Officer in the Division of Produce Safety at FDA's CFSAN, about how FDA intends to implement Subpart E of the Produce Safety Rule—the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Proposed Rule on Agricultural Water—including the recently extended compliance dates for pre-harvest agricultural water requirements. Finally, Bob Ferguson, President of Strategic Consulting Inc., speaks about his latest Food Safety Insights column on the projects and priorities that food processors put on hold during the pandemic and are now revisiting.
On Monday afternoon at the 2022 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting, representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) provided U.S. regulatory updates on food safety.
FDA has announced the fiscal year 2023 (FY 2023) user fee rates for the Voluntary Qualified Importer Program and the Accredited Third-Party Certification Program.
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.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a public registry of recognized accreditation bodies under the Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods Program (LAAF). Applications are now open for laboratories.
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).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated its agenda of Foods Program draft and final guidances that the agency intends to issue by the end of 2022.
Food companies that prepare fresh food items often source individual ingredients from primary suppliers. The food safety risk is typically controlled at primary supplier plants or farms; however, the food safety stakes are high. It is necessary to have "boots on the ground" to assess how food safety and quality programs are integrated with the front-line operation for those suppliers who mitigate food safety risk on the behalf of a receiving company.
