The Food Safety Enhancement Act has been broadly welcomed by industry but a group of organizations has issued a letter to the relevant committee voicing strong opposition to several of the bill’s provisions.
The issue of whether the FDA should charge food processors and manufacturers a $1000 fee to help fund food safety inspections has divided industry and consumer bodies.
A contentious proposal to compel US food manufacturers to contribute towards safety inspection costs took a step forward yesterday after the Food and Drug Administration signalled its backing for the idea.
On a summer’s day in 1906 Theodore Roosevelt pushed through new food safety regulation. The Food and Drugs Act passed that day over 100 years ago was the last time the US food safety system was modernized.
FDA authorities finally served an inspection warrant on a New Jersey snack manufacturer on Wednesday 18 days after it refused to recall products containing peanuts supplied by the Peanut Corporation of America.
Amidst ongoing amendments to improve food safety after recent US contamination scares, Kraft Foods says that system design and prevention remain central to its hygiene plans as opposed to heightened testing.
The American Peanut Council said it is working hard to encourage manufacturers to continue to use peanuts and protect the industry’s reputation which suffered at the hands of one rogue company after a salmonella outbreak.
President Obama has said in a televised interview that his administration will conduct a complete review of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent future lapses in food safety.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that the Peanut Corporation of America is expanding its recall to include all peanut products manufactured at the plant since January 1 2007.
More stevia sweetened products are lining up for launch but campaigners are calling for the FDA decision that signaled that the sweetener could be used in food and beverages to be reversed.
A flurry of activity has followed the FDA no objection letters for the stevia-derived sweetener, Reb A, to be used in food and beverages as two companies announce self-affirmed GRAS.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it has revoked the order prohibiting the extralabel use of cephalosporin antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals.
Food and beverage companies will have until 2012 to make any labeling regulation changes that are introduced over the next two years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced.
Worrying new statistics show that the number of young people with a food or digestive allergy has increased 18 percent in a decade, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A company which produces two canola protein isolates claims to have become the first to achieve GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) status for use in food in the US.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling on the food industry and other interested parties to have their say on the use of advisory labeling of allergens in food in a public hearing.
In the third of a four part series on natural colors, FoodNavigator looks at the regulatory situation in the US and Europe and the challenges this poses for food manufacturers and ingredients companies.
Food processers and manufacturers with tomato-based products are expected to feel the impact of a salmonella outbreak that has infected more than 1,200 people in the US.
Danisco has stopped selling the sweetener alitame and has withdrawn
its Food and Drug Administration (FDA) petition for it to be used
in food in America, citing uneconomic production.
A US federal judge has rejected a claim that the use of the term
'all natural' on Snapple drinks was deceptive because the products
contained high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) has launched a new
website to guide policy debate on the issue of food safety for
decision makers in the field, as well as with media and consumers.
A Californian rice and barley ingredient developer has been
criticized by organic and sustainable agriculture advocate, the
Center for Food Safety (CFS), over attempts to introduce specialist
GM proteins into the US food supply.
US food and agriculture company Cargill is to establish a joint
food safety management training programme with China's Quality,
Inspection and Quarantine Service (AQSIQ).
California aims to protect its consumers from the possible unknown
risks of consuming food from cloned animals and their offspring by
proposing a bill requiring such products to display clear and
prominent labels.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has appointed a new
interim director for its Center for Food Safety and Applied
Nutrition (CFSAN), to keep up strong leadership at a time of
heightened focus on food safety.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has created the board of
its new Reagan-Udall Foundation, taking the agency one step closer
to its goal of enhancing the development and safety of food and
food ingredients.
Blue California claims to have developed an economical industrial
production process for the 'natural sweetener' stevia, which
promises lower prices for manufacturers.
PepsiCo and several other soft drink manufacturers have agreed to a
settlement in a lawsuit brought against the companies alleging
their products contained cancer-causing benzene.
Regulatory bodies in the United States and Europe have said they
will review a new study linking aspartame to an increased risk of
cancer, but have reiterated that until an evaluation of the data is
conducted they continue to support...
Concerns over the safety of aspartame could be reignited after a
new study with rats linked regular intake of the sweetener with
increased risk of leukaemia, lymphomas and breast cancer.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to extend its
comment period on a proposal to allow meat and milk products from
cloned animals into the American food supply.
The battle against cloned food has moved up a notch, with the
Center for Food Safety joining a major dairy firm yesterday in
protests against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The federal food safety inspection unit has approved an additional
batch of additives, antimicrobals and agents for use as processing
aids directly on meat and poultry products.
Plans to allow milk and meat from cloned cows to enter the food
chain have moved a step closer in the US after the country's food
safety watchdog issued draft guidance for the industry and opened a
formal consultation.
The Food and Drug Administration has introduced two consumer tools
designed to help people understand nutrition facts panels so that
they are able to better control their food choices.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is under-resourced,
under-staffed, and essentially incapable of overseeing potential
threats to the US food supply, according to a former FDA official
who last week opposed the National Uniformity...
The nation's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been accused of
misleading Congress by ignoring the enforcement of key regulatory
provisions intended to provide accurate food labeling.
Five US soft drinks were found containing the cancer-causing
chemical benzene at levels above the legal limit for drinking
water, America's food safety watchdog has announced, sparking calls
for more thorough testing.
The US food regulatory agency last week rejected a proposed health
claim submitted by Nestlé, which would have implied that its whey
protein infant formulas reduced the risk of food allergy symptoms.
Carmine and cochineal extracts, the red food dyes made from the
dried bodies of the cochineal insect, should be removed from the
food supply once and for all, claims the non-profit Center for
Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced its
monetary proposal for fiscal 2007 with security again at the top of
the food agenda, while preparing for the potential threat of avian
'flu takes top overall priority.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may soon require food
companies to label the presence of insect-derived red color
additives cochineal extract or carmine, on the basis that these may
lead to severe allergic reactions.
Quebec-based Advitech said today it has reached an agreement with
US company PhotoMedex to market and distribute its whey-derived
psoriasis supplement in the US.