A Reagan-Udall report recommends the development of a sustainably funded stakeholder collaboration to address and fix the current produce safety system seen as “fragmented, reactive, and providing too little support to growers.”

With the increased federal focus on healthfulness, the potential impact on dietary supplements is being closely watched, with particular wariness around the potential elimination of self-affirmed GRAS and the FDA’s recently increased communication on the New Dietary Ingredient Notification (NDIN)...

With Americans’ confidence in the US food supply hitting an all-time low, a majority of respondents in the latest IFIC consumer survey attribute their lack of confidence to beliefs that the food industry prioritizes profit over safety and that the...

The findings of a recent OIG report on FDA inspections is, once again, reviving talk of a shifting of food inspections from the federal agency to the states. With the report finding that FDA is conducting fewer food facility inspections...

When a consumer purchases a food at retail, they assume the item will be what they expect the product type to be based on what is written on the container. While that can be ascertained today by required label information...

So far, during the current administration, we have seen a lot of food safety focus on FDA-regulated foods. This has taken the form of artificial colors, food additives, foods that are GRAS, etc.  However, now USDA is getting more vocal...

Seed oils are the latest ingredient in a long list to have become a focus over their use in foods. But it wasn’t so long ago that these polyunsaturated-fat oils were lauded as healthy replacements for saturated fats, such as...

There’s no question that the food side of FDA has been under-resourced and underfunded for years, as documented in a Reagan-Udall report, but there is much question about how – and if and when – that could be reconciled. So,...

On June 18, FDA published a proposed method for ranking chemicals in the food supply to prioritize post-market assessments. The method to rank the chemicals would focus on those that may present the greatest potential public health risk and are...

By Ben Miller, COO & EVP of Regulatory and Scientific Affairs Technological advancements are reshaping the food and beverage industry at every level, yet many still think of “AI” as simply related to large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT...