The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued today the 2017 edition of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards), which define the key elements of an effective retail food regulatory program for state, local, tribal, and territorial food regulatory...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inviting public comment in a Federal Register notice on a proposed determination that the European Union (EU) food safety control system for raw bivalve molluscan shellfish intended for export into the U.S. is equivalent to the U.S. system because it...

New digital technology that is increasingly used by food businesses to manage hygiene practices could soon also be used to help environmental health officers (EHO) monitor food businesses in real time, enabling them to detect food safety problems sooner and improve protection for the public. ...

The TGA has implemented a list of permitted indications for medicines listed under Section 26A of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (the Act). The list of permitted indications can be accessed via the Permissible Indications Determination(Determination) or via the TGA Business Services website(l...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — An effort to ban soda and other sugary drinks from children’s menus in New Hampshire has fizzled. The House on Tuesday voted 292-39 against a bill that would have applied to restaurants that serve children’s meals that bundle together food and a beverage...

The Transatlantic Taskforce on Antimicrobial Resistance (TATFAR) will gather in Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow for a three-day meeting to discuss how to strengthen partnerships in the fight against AMR. The meeting, hosted by the USA Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), will bring together...

MONTREAL -- Health Canada must review regulations around alcoholic beverages infused with high amounts of sugar following the reported death of a Quebec teenager who had drunk such a product, Quebec's public health minister said Monday. Some alcoholic products contain so much sugar, young...

Today, following a public selection process, a consortium formed by the Wageningen Livestock Research (the Netherlands), the Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Germany) and the Department of Animal Science at Aarhus University (Denmark) has been designated as EU Reference Centre. Laid down in the Offi...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Negotiators from the United States, Canada and Mexico successfully concluded discussions on rules governing food safety and animal health under a revised NAFTA trade deal, a Mexican source familiar with the matter said on Monday. The chapter on so-called sanitary an...

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of kasugamycin in or on the cherry subgroup 12-12A and walnut. The Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4) requested these...