On Tuesday, the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies approved and announced a $145.1 billion appropriations bill to support federal agriculture and nutrition programs in fiscal year 2019.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, Kathy Gombas offers an in-depth look into FSMA guidance documents as well insights into potential challenges some are finding in the first stages of implementation.
A memo posted to FDA.gov last week has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has denied the Grocery Manufacturer Association’s (GMA’s) food additive petition to allow the continued use of partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) for certain limited used in foods.
As of May 16, the multistate Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to contaminated romaine lettuce has spread to 32 states, sickening 172 people, according to the latest U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention update. Seventy-five people have been hospitalized and one person in California has died.
The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) has filed a federal petition with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in an attempt to keep some meat producers from referring to their products as “meat.”
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of Carmen Rottenberg and Paul Kiecker to key leadership positions within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Rottenberg has been named the Administrator of FSIS and Kiecker the Deputy Administrator.
The ongoing multistate Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce from the Yuma, AZ, growing region has now crossed the U.S. border into Canada.
On May 9, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shared its latest update on the romaine lettuce outbreak, adding additional victims and states to the existing list.
New research conducted at the Harvard Business School found that 19 million foodborne illnesses and 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars in medical-related costs could be avoided each year if federal food safety inspectors do one simple thing: tweak their schedules.
Bill Marler, the most prominent foodborne illness lawyer in America, spoke with Food Safety Matters about representing victims of foodborne illness and the evolution of food safety over the last 25 years.
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