On January 13, 2009, the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) announced a recall of some lots of peanut butter for potential Salmonella contamination. Through a continuing series of expansions, there were ultimately over 3,600 products recalled that were made with...

Six years after FDA’s publication of FSMA’s Produce Safety Rule, the agency has published the long-awaited proposed rule revising the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements for covered produce other than sprouts (Subpart E of the rule). With stakeholders having pushed back...

FDA has, at long last, issued the Final Rule for Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Food (LAAF Rule), laying out the specifications for the requirement that an accredited lab be used for food testing. What is important to understand is...