The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are still in the midst of investigating a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 infections (STEC O157:H7). In November and December, at least 17 consumers in 13 states were affected.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced new plans to make egg products even safer for American consumers.
In this week's episode of Food Safety Magazine's Food Safety Matters podcast, Lee-Ann Jaykus discusses her work with NoroCORE, and how the foodservice industry can work to prevent and reduce norovirus outbreaks.
In an effort to educate the industry about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the agency has put together a new web page that focuses on the FSMA Collaborative Training Forum.
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance that summarizes enforcement discretion for certain areas of the agency’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules.
A series of new audits claim that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not using its relatively recently expanded authority to conduct more food safety inspections, which in turn affects how food recalls are announced to the public.
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Office of Communications released a rundown of the agency’s 2017 accomplishments as identified by Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.
Last week, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) released data from a jointly produced report revealing that cases of Salmonella Enteritidis acquired in the EU have increased in humans by 3 percent since 2014.
This week, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blog post authored by Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced a list of goals the agency plans to tackle in 2018.
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