As I write this week’s newsletter, there is yet another announcement of romaine lettuce being linked to E. coli illnesses, this time in..

On October 31, FDA announced a romaine lettuce E. coli O157:H7 outbreak for which the active investigation had ended and the outbreak appear

In its October publication on record requirements for the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) FDA takes a question & answer approac

The Preventive Controls Rule requires that food facilities establish a written recall plan for food that requires a preventive control...

FDA just launched its updated Food Defense Plan Builder (FDPB) v2.0 in September, the purpose of the FDPB is to help industry easily create.

Sometimes a report comes out from FDA that is not very exciting to most of our readers, but often these reports, even if not exciting, are a

CDC’s annual Foodborne Disease Outbreak Report published in September provided data on the 841 foodborne disease outbreaks that occurred thr

With nearly 1/3 of the U.S. food supply lost or wasted at the retail and consumer levels, and studies linking at least some of the waste to

By David Acheson, M.D. Concerns around Hepatitis A have increased significantly in the last year or so. There have been several areas of ...

With the Produce Safety Rule in effect for nearly three years for larger farmers (about eight months for even the smallest), inspections..