Listeria in frozen corn in Europe; Salmonella linked to dried coconut in eight U.S. states. We continue to see pathogens causing outbreak...

Following the 9/11 attack in 2001, U.S. food regulators began to focus in earnest on preventing deliberate attacks on the food supply. Hi...

It seems that FDA is making good use, itself, of the extra time it provided the industry for compliance with the Nutrition Facts and Supp...

Inspector major observations, enforcement statistics and more. Last week Food Safety Preventive Control Alliance (FSPCA) updated Foreign ...

Listeria is, once again, in the news. But this time, it’s on a global scale. What’s happening? What does it mean to you and what can we l...

There were some very interesting changes in food and beverage recall trends for Q4 2017. Most notably is that although undeclared allerge...

In our last newsletter we talked about FDA testing of spices and some concerns for spice users.   In this week’s newsletter we are contin...

For many years, spices have been known to be a high-risk food in relation to the likelihood of microbial contamination. In a simplistic w...

With the rollout of numerous guidance documents related to FSMA and other regulations, the question often arises with our clients as to w...

Depending on your stance, importing food into the U.S. has just gotten simpler ... or more complex. That is, FDA’s January launch of FSMA...