Marking its 120th year as an agency, the FDA has unveiled its first-ever official agency seal and released the 2026 Human Foods Program (HFP) priority
First identified in the 1920s as a zoonotic disease, Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) was not recognized as a foodborne pathogen until it was linked to a
Although the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was enacted in 2011, for which the FDA has issued nine rules, the agency has not yet completed
Citing the newly released Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) 2025-2030 as “the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in our nation’s history,” HHS Secretary
By Dr. David Acheson While I correctly foretold 2025 to be a year of significant change, I see 2026 as much less predictable. In fact,
By Dr. David Acheson, President and CEO Last year about this time, I predicted that 2025 would be a year of change. While that certainly
Unplanned worker absences can have a major impact on a food facility, with the holidays being prime time for vacation requests and call-offs due to
In the US, 80% of foodborne illness cases never have a pathogen associated with them, primarily because the cases are mild, so the individual doesn’t
FSMA mandates that FDA conduct at least 19,200 foreign food facility inspections each year. While the number of conducted foreign inspections dropped significantly during the