The FDA has published a new resource for industry on thenew requirement for manufacturers of critical foods to develop a redundancy risk management plan. This new requirement, in section 424(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), was established through the Food and Drug Omn...

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is a laboratory technique that has the potential to change how we detect and monitor microbial hazards in the food chain. WGS is useful for understanding foodborne diseases through enhancing routine surveillance, outbreak detection, outbreak response and for source id...

Constituent Update - October 27, 2023 USDA Appoints New Members to Food Safety Advisory Committee On Oct. 27, 2023, USDA announced the appointment of 21 new members and nine returning members to the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF). NACMCF provid...

Last month was the one-year anniversary of theWhite House Conference and National Strategyon Hunger, Nutrition and Health. The FDA continues to make great progress on our nutrition efforts, which can help to combat the epidemic of diet-related disease. The conference, and the correspondingNational S...

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FSIS Implements Modernized Chemical Residue Quantitative Method FSIS has developed an innovative method for beef muscle samples that uses modern chemistry instrumentation for quantifying chemical residues. On October 1, 2023, the FSIS laboratory system intends to implement a new quantitative metho...

FSIS Launches New Data Tool: Recall and Public Health Alert API WASHINGTON, September 7, 2023– The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) launched a new feature on its website that enables software developers to access data on recalls and publ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded the signing of a Regulatory Partnership Arrangement (RPA) with Ecuador’s seafood regulatory authority to enhance the safety of shrimp imported to the United States. A first-of-its-kind, the RPA serves as an arrangement between the FDA a...

Overview In August 2019 the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation (now the Food Ministers’ Meeting) asked the Food Regulation Standing Committee (FRSC) to consider options to improve the composition of the food supply in relation to trans fats. This consultation has ...

By: Robert M. Califf, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs As weannouncedat the start of the year, the FDA is embarking on an ambitious plan to transform our current organizational structure in the various foods programs into a unified Human Foods Program (HFP). These changes will improve how we pr...