Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is releasing theresultsfrom a sampling assignment conducted during 2022 to 2024 on testing of frozen seafood products for short weighting. Short weighting can occur in frozen seafood when the net weight includes the weight of the added water glaze o...

Microbiological testing can play an important role in food safety management providing the reason for testing is clear and the test applied is appropriate. Microbiological criteria support decision making about a food or process when microbiological testing is used. A microbiological criterion ...

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: FSIS is amending the Federal meat inspection regulations to remove the provisions providing for FSIS' sampling and testing of pumped bacon for nitrosamines. FSIS stopped samp...

FSIS Announcement WASHINGTON, June 3, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. FSIS is issuing this public health alert to ensure that consu...

Texaslawmakers have filed a billthat would outlaw the manufacture, possession and sale of cell-cultured protein, an alternativeto animal meat. Senate Bill 261, authored bySen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, has advanced out of committee and will head to the full Senate. It would still need approval ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Abillmaking its way through the Tennessee General Assembly would prohibit any foods or drinks sold on school campuses from containing Red 40, with certain exceptions. Brought by Rep. Elaine Davis (R-Knoxville) and Sen. Janice Bowling (R-Tullahoma), the bill would pro...

MORGANTOWN — The House of Delegates overwhelmingly approved on Friday a bill to ban certain food preservatives and synthetic dyes. The vote to pass HB 2354 was 93-5 and will head to the state Senate. As it happened, the version of the bill the delegates passed was amended on the House fl...

Proposed Maximum Residue Limit PMRL2025-03, Lambda-cyhalothrin Pest Management Regulatory Agency 03 February 2025 ISSN: 1925-0843 (PDF version) Catalogue number: H113-24/2025-3E-PDF (PDF version) Table of Contents Background Purpose of consultation Dietary health assessment ...

This draft guidance provides FDA’s recommendations on best practices for naming and labeling of certain plant-based foods that are marketed and sold as alternatives for animal-derived foods (plant-based alternative foods), especially in the absence of a common or usual name for the product. Th...

FSIS Announcement WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2024 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for ready-to-eat (RTE) frozen chicken products that did not receive the benefit of import reinspection. A recall was not reques...