Food Safety

FDA Provides Temporary Flexibility Regarding Nutrition Labeling of Certain Packaged Food

Move taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, offers guidance to restaurants and food manufacturers

March 27, 2020

Regulatory: Page 15

Food Safety

The COVID-19 Outbreak and Food Production

Food and beverage industry workers are deemed essential to critical infrastructure; FDA suspends some inspections.

March 19, 2020

Beverage

FDA Issues Temporary COVID-19 Policy for Receiving Facilities and FSVP Importers

FDA

New temporary policy for meeting FSMA Supplier Verification Onsite Audit Requirements

March 18, 2020

Food Safety

FDA Releases Action Plan to Advance the Safety of Leafy Greens

Agency announces ways it will work to prevent and respond to STEC outbreaks in a commodity that has been “too often implicated” in cases of foodborne illness

March 6, 2020

Food Safety

New FSIS Leadership Announced

Paul Kiecker to serve as administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

February 24, 2020

Food Safety

GFSI Releases Case Study Booklet

New and improved Case Study Booklet includes real stories on business actions to advance food safety

February 19, 2020

Regulatory

FDA Releases Third Installment of the Draft Guidance for the Intentional Adulteration Rule

Food and Drug Administration

Compliance requirements of the rule for large facilities began in July 2019; inspections to begin this March.

February 13, 2020

Food Safety

FDA Releases Small Entity Compliance Guide on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels

FDA

Compliance required by January 1, 2020, for manufacturers with $10 million or more in annual food sales; manufacturers with less than $10 million in annual food sales have an another year to comply.

February 3, 2020

Beverage

FDA Issues Final Guidance for Packaged Foods Manufacturers

Clarifies serving sizes, dual-column labeling

January 7, 2020

Regulatory

Legal Update--myth busting

Legal analyst Eric Greenberg discusses marketing terms not recognized by the FDA, and CBD gets its first round of warning letters.

December 16, 2019

Automation

Navigating a very complex industry

Transparency, sustainability, regulations, customer demands and the labor shortage all add up to make your job very demanding. Can automation come to the rescue?

December 3, 2019

Regulatory

FDA introduces new tool to track FSMA implementation

Will measure impact on the food safety system and more

October 1, 2019

Regulatory

USDA modernizes swine slaughter inspection for the first time in more than 50 years

The final rule has new requirements for microbial testing that apply to all swine slaughterhouses to demonstrate that they are controlling for pathogens throughout the slaughter system.

September 17, 2019