Food safety culture has long been seen as a “good to have” in Canada food establishments, but it had not been called out as a regulatory mandate by CFIA. However, with the CFIA’s current inspection crackdown, food safety culture has...

The most recent CORE Report has been published – with some new facets. With the 2024 FDA organizational changes, an Emergency Response team was added to the Coordinated Outbreak Response & Evaluation (CORE) Network, expanding the CORE mission from a...

The use of precautionary allergen labeling (PAL) has long been at issue, with labels such as “may contain” being unregulated, unstandardized, misunderstood, and misused. Is there a way to better implement PALs to benefit consumers? Should the current voluntary use...

The continuing focus of the current administration on the Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) “loophole” of self-affirmation has led to organizations and media digging further into the existing GRAS system and its uses, resulting in some interesting statistics and perspectives....

FSMA rules are back on FDA’s docket with a focus on traceability and produce: With compliance to the Traceability Rule having been extended to July 20, 2028, the FDA has issued guidance and is scheduling quarterly listening sessions organized by...

by Joe Scimeca, TAG Senior Advisor Co-author of Application of new approach methods (NAMs) in food safety with considerations for new proteins Historically, research on the toxicity of a substance has amassed information through studies in which the substance is...

Food recalls significantly increased in 2025, with surges in both FDA and USDA regulated foods, and some major recalls are already occurring in 2026. If your product was implicated in an outbreak, how closely would you be able to define...

Using approved natural colors in food products has just gained an added advantage, as manufacturers can now claim products as containing “no artificial colors” when they do not contain petroleum-based colors. FDA Updates Food Label Claim Ability The FDA announcement...

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 deliverables based on a three-pillar model: microbiological safety, chemicals, and nutrition. New FDA Seal Reflects...

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 contaminated coleslaw outbreak in Canada in the 1980s. Today, an estimated 1,600 people in the...