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549[Canada] Food Directorate Updatd : Path Forward for Contaminants and Other Adulterating Substances in Foods (2016-09-22)To provide greater transparency and openness to further strengthen trust in the Health Canada's regulatory decisions, the department launched the Regulatory Transparency and Openness Framework to support Canada's Action Plan on Open Government 2012-2014. In line with the Regulatory Roadma...2016-09-26
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548[USA] China Moves Peopen Market to U.S. Beef (2016-09-22)WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement: "I welcome the announcement from China's Ministry of Agriculture that it has lifted its ban on U.S. beef following a recently concluded review of the U.S. supply system. This an...2016-09-26
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547[USA] Petition to Extend Determination of Nonregulated Status to Two GE Potato Lines (2016-09-23)The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has preliminarily determined that it will extend deregulation to two lines of genetically engineered (GE) potatoes developed by J.R. Simplot Company for late blight resistance, low acrylamide pote...2016-09-26
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546[USA] Food Safety and Inspection Service Issues New Directive Addressing HPAI and Argo-Terrorism (2016-09-22)FSIS has issued a new Directive addressing steps it would take in the event of an HPAI or agro-terrorism incident. •As our readership is well aware, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the federal agency charged with protecting the nation’s poultry and meat su...2016-09-26
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545[EU] World leaders gather at UN to address antimicrobial resistance (2016-09-21)Global leaders aim to agree on comprehensive, multi-sectorial approaches to the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance when they meet at the United Nations General Assembly in New York today (21 September). EFSA contributes to the fight against antimicrobial resistance by providing scien...2016-09-23
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544[USA] Thiabendazole; Pesticide Tolerances - A Rule by the Environmental Protection Agency on 09/22/2016 (2016-09-22)AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This regulation establishes tolerances for residues of thiabendazole in or on the legume vegetable group 6 and foliage of legume vegetable group 7. Syngenta Crop Protection requested these tolerances u...2016-09-23
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543[USA] USDA Issues Policy Memo to Ensure Consistency between Labeling Programs (2016-09-19)The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has posted a Policy Memorandum stating how AMS will establish consistency between the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (Pub. L. 114-216) and regulations to implement the standard with the Organic...2016-09-23
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542[Australia] Vietnamese dragon fruit could pose biosecurity risk and flddo local market, says NT farmer (2016-09-21)A Northern Territory farmer says she is concerned about the potential biosecurity risks posed by Australia importing dragon fruit from Vietnam. The Federal Department of Agriculture has released a draft report proposing the importation of dragon fruit from the South-East Asian country, provid...2016-09-22
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541[Canada] Notice of Health Canada’s Proposal to Enable the Use of Lactococcus lactis DSM 11037 as an Oxygen Scavenger in Certain Modified Atmosphere-Packaged (MAP) and Vacuum-Packaged Preserved Meat Products - Reference Number: NOP/AVP-0021 (2016-09-20)Background Health Canada's Food Directorate completed a detailed safety assessment of a food additive submission seeking approval for the use of a preparation containing a live culture of the bacterium Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis) DSM 11037 as an oxygen scavenger in certain modified atm...2016-09-22
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540[USA] Constituent Update - September 16, 2016 (2016-09-21)September is National Preparedness Month: A Flooding Checklist Rivers rise, the ground saturates and levees fail. Floods happen and they happen beside rivers, on the coast, in deserts and in city streets. Flooding might be a fact of nature, but that does not mean you have to lose your busines...2016-09-22