Food Safety Culture – Becoming a Global Requirement
All are initiating a new or updated focus on Food Safety Culture. This means that all in the food industry – worldwide – will need to be ini …
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FDA Finds CBD Product Quality to be Questionable
Will this further delay dietary supplement and food and beverage approvals? In July, FDA submitted a report to the U.S. House and Senate app …
How 2020 Is Shifting the Food Industry – and Providing Opportunity
2020 has been irrevocably marked as the year of COVID; however, it is not the only thing impacting the food industry. As presented at the IF …
German Study Brings STEC-Contaminated Flour to the Forefront
A recent report from Germany will likely put microbial contaminants in flour back in the spotlight and again illustrates the huge challenge …
Small Business Food Defense Inspections Delayed, But Compliance Now in Effect
FDA routine inspections of small businesses for compliance with FSMA’s Intentional Adulteration (IA) rule will not begin until March 2021. …
Will the CRN Citizen’s Petition for CBD as a Dietary Supplement Have an Impact?
With FDA’s lack of regulatory guidance on the use of CBD in foods or as a dietary supplement and varied enforcement causing frustration… …
FDA’s New Era Blueprint: “exploring,” “encouraging,” and “enhancing”
FDA has published its New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint, originally intended for publication in March 2020; but, delayed due to the p …
How Do Cage-free Regulations Really Impact Food Safety?
State regulations banning cages for egg-laying chickens seem to be picking up steam. Early this month, CO became the sixth state to require …
Establishing Best Practices to Protect Migrant Farm Workers from COVID-19
The USDA estimates that 10% of hired farmworkers are foreign nationals employed on temporary work visas under the H-2A agricultural workers …
Despite COVID-19 – and Confusing FDA Listings – 2020 Food Recalls Are Down
TAG’s IT experts provided general data from the open.fda.gov/api reports confirming that, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic ov …
