January 1, 2019, was to be the opening of the second annual registration period for Voluntary Qualified Importer Program (VQIP) applicati...

How prepared is the food industry to mitigate intentional adulteration incidents?  Ensure their suppliers, facilities and supply chain dow...

With rising occurrences of intentional adulteration (IA) and food defense incidents and the looming FSMA IA rule compliance date, compani...

FDA has taken a major step in consumer safety. As detailed in newly issue draft guidance, FDA will now, when warranted, publicize the nam...

In the most recent session of the monthly FSMA Friday live updates with TAG and SafetyChain Software, TAG Food Safety Director Eric Edmun...

​​If we’d written about Cyclospora a year or so ago, many readers would likely have asked “Cyclo-what?” Today the word – and all its repe...

In the July FSMA Fridays session, TAG Founder and Owner David Acheson discussed where we are with FSMA today. There have been a lot of up...

If you are selling produce or using produce you need to keep Cyclospora in mind because the FDA Commissioner certainly has it on his mind...

Are recalls changing in number, scope or focus? There seems to have been a continued run on recalls during 2018 along with some high-prof...

Have you had an FDA Preventive Controls inspection yet – with its all-out environmental sampling "swab-a-thons"?  If not – and if you're ...