FDA Resumes Inspections, Plans 2022 Guidance FDA is back on the road and planning new focus areas for 2022. Two recent FDA announcements provided information
The Hygiene Hypothesis and Allergy Reduction The hygiene hypothesis proposes that childhood exposure to germs and certain infections helps the immune system develop…. In theory,
With supply chain issues having been one of the greatest challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, regulators have made attempts to ease some of the regulatory
Since 2018, FDA has allowed for FSMA Preventive Controls exemptions for qualified facilities through the submission of an attestation of qualification. With the exemptions applying
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the Omicron variant. Read more below. On Sunday Jan 09, the CDC updated its “Quarantine and
As we discussed in last week’s Insights article, 2021 was a highly challenging year on all fronts for the food industry … and with the
On January 13, 2009, the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) announced a recall of some lots of peanut butter for potential Salmonella contamination. Through a
Six years after FDA’s publication of FSMA’s Produce Safety Rule, the agency has published the long-awaited proposed rule revising the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements for
FDA has, at long last, issued the Final Rule for Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Food (LAAF Rule), laying out the specifications for the requirement
Although FDA investigators are still more focused on inspecting for cGMP compliance, rather than conducting full Preventive Controls inspections, facilities are being written up for