This episode of Food Safety Five discusses a recent report showing that FDA has not met its mandated food inspection targets since 2018. Also covered are FDA’s new action levels for lead in foods for babies and children, and the success of Canadian regulations to control Salmonella in raw, frozen and breaded chicken products.
This episode of Food Safety Five previews the top three food safety innovations of 2024, based on the advancements that gained the most attention from Food Safety Magazine readers. These include a first-of-its-kind antimicrobial preharvest agricultural water treatment, as well as novel PFAS detection and remediation techniques.
This year’s Top Ten Food Safety Innovations list was chosen based on which discoveries and technologies attracted the most attention from Food Safety Magazine readers, including new detection methods for chemical and microbiological contaminants, novel processing technologies, preharvest interventions for microbial risks, and others.
Earthjustice sued FDA on behalf of consumer advocates that previously petitioned FDA to revoke food contact authorizations for 28 phthalates, and were denied. Although FDA since revoked authorizations for many of those phthalates and says the rest are under review, the plaintiffs hope their lawsuit will force a long-overdue safety reassessment.
This episode of Food Safety Five covers a recent amendment made to the EU microbiological criteria for managing Listeria monocytogenes in certain ready-to-eat foods. Also discussed are recent pressures put on FDA to ban red dye 3 in foods.
In a recent Senate hearing, top U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials shared how resource constraints hinder its food chemical safety review work, and provided insight into a pending decision about red dye 3’s authorization for food use.
This Food Safety Five Newsreel episode discusses a fatal Escherichia coli outbreak that recently swept the U.S., as well as a decision by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to raise the acceptable daily intake for artificial sweetener saccharin.
Recent research efforts by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to support novel food risk assessments include a study of the effects that processing methods for novel and genetically modified foods can have on proteins, as well as the development of a fit-for-purpose, in vitro toxicity assessment approach for novel proteins.
This Food Safety Five Newsreel episode covers recent news updates from FDA, including the release of a supplement to the 2022 Food Code, as well as the agency’s Human Foods Program priorities for 2025, and how budget constraints might influence its chemical safety work.
Researchers are pointing to the food safety and public health threat of microplastics in wastewater, which can serve as a vehicle for pathogenic biofilm communities and antibiotics, introducing these hazards to the environment and crops, and even contributing to antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
