Warning Letter: Pest Citations
Over the last year, TAG has provided insights into current warning letters and made recommendations to industry to help avoid similar situations. To correspond with
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Flies in Your Plants? You Could Get 483’d!
Summer may not officially begin until June 20, but flies, ants and other summer pests don’t pay attention to the calendar. Rather, it is the
DEA Proposes Marijuana Rescheduling … What Does This Really Mean?
On May 16, 2024, The Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice published a proposal to transfer marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the
Studies Show H5N1 in Raw Milk is Capable of Infection if Improperly Inactivated
Studies are showing that untreated, raw milk containing the H5N1 virus poses a high risk of infection in susceptible animals. With heat inactivation/pasteurization showing efficacy
Only Three States Follow the Most Current Food Code
As of December 31, 2023, only three states and two territories had adopted the most recent version (2022) of the FDA Food Code. Following previous
Double Dip Dilemma
I love dip, and I hate having half a chip without dip just because my first dip didn’t cover the full chip. So I double
Agencies Studies Show No Risk of H5N1 Transmission through Food
Continuing federal studies are finding that food safety practices will kill avian influenza in foods, with USDA experiments showing H5N1 to be killed through the
HACCP, GMP, FSP Violations Trigger Warning Letter
A facility which processes seafood and acidified foods recently received a warning letter that followed observations from a 2023 inspection which included failure to provide
Top Causes Continue to Lead Recalls and FDA/USDA Action
If you were given five guesses as to the top causes of food recalls anytime in the last, say, decade, it is likely that undeclared
Can Human H5N1 Be Tracked by Wastewater?
When we saw indications last August that there could be a late summer wave of COVID-19 cases, those indications were primarily a matter of case count
