Tag: fda

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its regulatory counterparts in Mexico – the Federal Commission for the Protection from Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS) and the National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety and Quality (SENASICA) held the second annual Food Safety Partnership (FSP) Meeting as part of ongoing efforts to help ensure the safety of food imported from Mexico and to advance protections for consumers in both countries.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program Report for Fiscal Year 2020. The FDA found that 96.8% of domestic foods were compliant with the pesticide tolerances set by the EPA. No pesticides were found in 40.8% of the domestic samples.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) have introduced legislation that would detach food safety regulation from the incompetent FDA and create a new Department of Food.

F&S Produce Co. of Vineland, NJ is recalling a limited quantity of Protein Power Snack, because it contains a cup of 0.75oz JIF peanut butter which has the potential of being contaminated with Salmonella.

The FDA is doing a lousy job in managing food safety for Americans. I won’t even say that that was the verdict of a panel at a Virtual Town Hall webinar sponsored by IFPA June 8. It was the premise.

Speech by Frank Yiannas, Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response - Food and Drug Administration. (Remarks as prepared for delivery)

Rather than tinkering with FDA, maybe it’s time for bigger thinking.

The FDA, along with CDC, and state and local partners, is investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the United States linked to fresh organic strawberries.

As targets go, today’s Food and Drug Administration is the equivalent of the broad side of a barn.

At least I wasn’t reading it over lunch. I’ve been making my way through Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety, by Timothy D. Lytton, a law professor at Georgia State University.