It’s always interesting to take a look back on the year and think about the events and issues that were of the greatest significance to y…

Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season & a new year filled with peace & happiness. Thank you for your business. Sincerely, TAG The Ac…

FSMA has many tentacles and impacts multiple parts of the food industry. This latest FDA guidance about refusing FDA inspections is anoth…

The passage of the Produce Safety rule (officially entitled Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for Hu…

The main focus of this week’s newsletter is how FDA is partnering with the states for enforcement of the Produce Safety Rule. But before w…

Here’s What FDA Says About Convening a Panel When FDA published the GRAS Final Rule in August 2016, a Consumer Reports headline read: “GR…

Listeria monocytogenes (LM) is a deadly pathogen in susceptible individuals, and is rightly taken very seriously by public health officia…

The notification of a new publication from FDA or USDA rarely elicits eager reading from the food industry, as it is generally about a new…

Over the last few weeks, FDA has published three new guidance/draft guidance documents, two of which focus on very specific segments of t…