The Government of Canada yesterday announced it is proposing to amend the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalities Regulations (AMPs Regulations) to expand Administrative Monetary Penalities (AMPs) to the Meat Inspection Act and the Meat Inspection Regulations, enacted in 1990. The proposed regulatory amendments will enable the issuance of monetary penalties for violation of these laws.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are sponsoring a public meeting tomorrow, Feb. 27, to provide information, receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions to be discussed at the 8th Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF). The 8th Session of the CCCF will be held March 31 – April 4 in The Hague, Netherlands.
The largest American food safety update in 70 years will be complete by spring 2016 under the terms of a settlement announced Thursday between food safety advocates.
New Zealand's Minister for Primary Industries (MPI) Nathan Guy and Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye on Feb. 18 announced that a working group will be set up to improve dairy product traceability. according to AgriHQ.co.nz.
The Paris-based Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) today announced that Cenk Gürol, group chief SCM officer, Aeon Co., Ltd., and president, Aeon Global SCM Co., Ltd., Japan, has been appointed as its new Board chairman. The newly elected vice chairs of GFSI are Mike Robach, vice president, food safety, quality and regulatory affairs, Cargill, USA, and Neil Marshall, global director, quality & food safety strategy, policy and programs, The Coca-Cola Company, USA.
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Global Food Traceability Center (GFTC) has received a grant to conduct research into the impacts of traceability on consumer attitudes and business performance in the seafood industry from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that registration is open for the third public meeting on the Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food Proposed Rule, to be held Thursday, March 20, in College Park, MD.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has developed a new tool for use by FSIS-regulated companies, known as Food Defense and Recall Preparedness: A Scenario-Based Exercise Tool. FSIS is hosting webinars for industry on Feb. 19 and March 14 to explain the tool's purpose and to demonstrate how to use it.
Two subcommittees of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) will hold public meetings next month in Washington, DC. The subcommittee on Control Strategies for Reducing Foodborne Norovirus Infections will meet March 18-20 and the subcommittee on the Study of Microbiological Criteria as Indicators of Process Control or Insanitary Conditions will meet March 25-27.
Research conducted by the Minnesota Department of Health has concluded that consuming raw milk is unsafe and that illnesses from the product are more prevalent than previously realized, with 17 percent of those consuming the product falling ill.
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