With food being the single most common material found in landfills, three government agencies have collaborated to develop a national strategy to drive progress toward the national goal of reducing food loss and waste in the U.S. by 50% by...

Since FY17, FDA has been conducting Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) inspections on a year-over-year increasing basis. Although the overall number of citations has dropped since FY21, more than half of the inspections continue to have findings of “objectionable conditions...

If you’re returning to the U.S. on an international flight and get asked if you’d be willing to volunteer to take a COVID test, it’s likely part of CDC’s Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program (TGS). With U.S. airports visited by more...

If anyone has doubted that the regulation of a single state could impact the nation, it’s time to think again … In the wake of California’s October banning of brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in food, the FDA has followed suit,...

With the FSMA Intentional Adulteration (IA) Rule being the first of its kind, the FDA began initial in-person surveys in March 2020 with Quick Check inspections, for which the intent was to determine if the firm had a food defense...

A review of the top inspectional observations, a new way of reporting a facility’s related corrective actions, and the suggestion that the agency may be open to entertaining threshold levels for allergens were three of the areas discussed in FDA...

While petitions to the FDA from industry and citizens are often at odds, it was a citizen petition from industry that was the partial basis of a new FDA proposed rule. Of further interest, if passed, the regulation will benefit...

Imported foods must meet the same food safety standards as domestically produced foods, so the requirements for imported foods should be pretty much the same, right? Not quite. It takes quite a bit more, not only to ensure the food...

With just over two years left for the industry to comply with the new Food Traceability Rule (FSMA 204), facilities are beginning to take a new look at their products to determine if any of their foods or ingredients are...

Since 2016, FDA has been rolling out (albeit rather slowly), a series of guidance documents for 17 chapters related to FSMA’s Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule (PC Rule). Last week, FDA released two additional chapters on Food Allergen Programs...