The School Lunch Integrity Act of 2024, sponsored by Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Jon Tester (D-MT), would ban cell-cultivated meat from use in school meals.

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has proposed to set a limit for ethylene oxide in all food additives in line with EU regulations and is calling for stakeholder feedback, alongside a public consultation on several regulated product applications.

On March 1, 2024, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) will host a free webinar for industry exploring Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) determinations during the product development process.

In light of USDA-FSIS’s proposed regulatory framework to reduce Salmonella illnesses attributable to poultry, a recently published report by the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) provides guidance on microbiological criteria that might be used to identify and incentivize effective intervention strategies.

In the UK, three men have been sentenced after being found guilty of chicken theft and food fraud worth more than £300,000.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a new webpage listing retail food safety resources and information, along with a new job aid about time/temperature control foods according to the FDA Food Code.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) recently highlighted its key achievements in 2023 that helped strengthen food safety and the supply chain, including efforts on a new regulatory framework to crack down on Salmonella in poultry.

FDA recently published revisions to one guidance for industry and withdrew another. Specifically, FDA released revisions to the Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCHF) Draft Guidance, and withdrew its guidance on chlorpyrifos residues due to the U.S. Court of Appeals voiding EPA's ban on food tolerances for the pesticide chemical.

A new FDA webpage lists regulations that the Human Foods Program (HFP) plans to publish by October 2024 and longer-term regulations HFP is prioritizing. FDA also updated the list of guidance topics that it is considering and expects to publish by the end of 2024, which was last updated in July 2023.

USDA’s Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary for 2022 shows that more than 99 percent of products sampled through PDP had residues below tolerances set by EPA. However, testing for persistent environmental contaminants that are no longer used as pesticides in the U.S. showed the presence of certain banned chemicals in some foods.