09
May
FDA Defines Requirements for IA Rule; First Compliance Dates Come Up in July
By Rolando Gonzalez and Christopher Snabes With the first of the compliance dates for the FSMA final rule on intentional adulteration (IA...
01
May
Are You Recall Ready and Would Regulators See You as Recall Ready?
Have you ever asked yourself: What does FDA or FSIS say I should be doing to ensure I am prepared for a recall? Or … What does FDA or FSI...
24
Apr
Do Consumers Trust Your Food?
We all know how fickle consumers can be, and with little to no science or apparent logic, they will decide that they don’t like a brand. ...
17
Apr
Why does it take so long?
The first illness began on March 2, 2019. By April 8, 96 people from five states had been reported as ill from E. coli O103, with 11 hosp...
11
Apr
USDA Foreign Object Contamination Focus Prompts Customer Complaint GuidancE
Foreign object contamination has become a huge issue for FSIS as evidenced by the increasing number of recalls related to this issue. A f...
04
Apr
FDA Direction Revealed in Gottlieb’s Final Statements
On March 28, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations for the last time in his role as c...
28
Mar
Lessons to be Learned from an Anything-But-Typical Recall
On March 12, a recall notice was posted on the FDA website for two production lots of Pillsbury Unbleached All-Purpose Flour due to possi...
21
Mar
Will Your Foods Need to Be Labeled as BE?
In February’s “FSMA Friday and Regulatory Update” webinar, Eric Edmunds, JD, of The Acheson Group (TAG) discussed the National Bioenginee...
21
Mar
Is Your FDP Complete? FDA’s Updated IA Rule Guidance Can Help
With the first of the compliance dates for FSMA’s Intentional Adulteration (IA) Rule only four months away, FDA has released the second o...
14
Mar
Modernizing Dietary Supplement Oversight: Will FDA’s New Policies Impact You?
Although aspects of the eight-year-old Food Safety Modernization Act are still being rolled out, FDA has taken on a new modernization end...
