In last week’s article, we discussed the differing perspectives of consumers in the US, UK, and EU in relation to their confidence in the safety of their food supplies, with the UK and EU showing more confidence and trust than...

While US consumers are expressing continued concerns over the safety of the US food supply, UK and EU consumer surveys are showing increased confidence in their food supplies. In the US In the UK In the EU So, what does...

In recent years, the food industry has learned that an investigation by the DOJ can have a profound effect on the business. It is costly, time-consuming and depending if the investigation leads to a prosecution, very impactful on a company’s...

The use of nuisance lawsuits has been raised as a means to drive change around the risks of fresh produce. As such, we feel it is a topic about which it is important to raise awareness. The statistics: FDA cites...

While “mission-critical activities” of the FDA, USDA, and CDC are continuing during the federal government shutdown, with core food safety operations considered essential to protect public health, other support activities have been halted with close to half of FDA and...

In its continuing commitment to increased transparency, FDA is sharing more in-depth information on outbreak investigations, providing access to two new resources: TAG sees the new issuance of these reports as noteworthy and beneficial to the industry as well as...

USDA has recently put a lot more emphasis on allergen controls. But if USDA’s recent issuance of new instructions for its inspectors on how to assess an establishment’s allergen program causes anxiety over what may be new and whether you...

In follow-up to the initial MAHA Report published in May, the HHS has published a 20-page, 120-initiative MAHA Strategy paper “narrowly” focused on nutrition and metabolic health, food quality, cumulative exposures, microbiome, precision agriculture, and mental health, that Robert F Kennedy Jr....

With both Congressional and industry organizational questions coming to a head about the food safety and public health policies and actions of HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, he was the subject last week of a Senate Hearing and a...

FoodNet came into existence in 1996 as a direct result of the Jack-In-The-Box outbreak in 1993.   It was set up so we could all see how our various systems and approaches were doing in terms of reducing the prevalence of...