In an April 5 webinar, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods James (Jim) Jones spoke in great detail about the agency’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 Presidential budget request, and how portions of those funds will be allocated to meeting Human Foods Program goals.

Following the entry of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) for a state meat inspection program in July 2022, the Oregon Department of Agriculture been allocated $9 million in state funding to support the state meat inspection program.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced new funding and education opportunities for school nutrition professionals through its Produce Safety University.

U.S. President Joe Biden recently signed the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which allocates $25.480 billion in total base discretionary funding for U.S. agencies that are responsible for agriculture and food safety, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The University of Maryland-based Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have entered a five-year, $41 million cooperative agreement that will expand JIFSAN’s work to increase the scientific knowledge required to mitigate foodborne illness and inform food safety policy.

The Center for Produce Safety (CPS) has funded 14 new research projects that will help answer the fresh produce industry’s most urgent food safety questions related to leafy greens, stone fruit, pears, foodborne pathogens, indoor farming, and other topics.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced its new Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops (FSCSC) program, which will provide financial assistance to specialty crops producers who incur eligible on-farm food safety program expenses while pursuing a food safety certification in calendar years 2022 or 2023.

Colorado School of Public Health researchers found that investments in state public health programs significantly affect states’ levels of foodborne illness outbreak reporting.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has announced an investment of $10 million over 21 grants to help with food safety and Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) training, education, and more.

Retail food safety can benefit from a new opportunity offered by the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to achieve compliance with Retail Program Standards: the NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model Grant Program.