Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2025

" A broader FDA crackdown on food dyes and manufacturing ingredients is gaining momentum , with multiple synthetic colors facing immediate scrutiny, according to Dongoski. led Health & Human Services (HHS)/ Food & Drug Administration (FDA)," he noted.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

The FDA issued this warning this morning – Recall underway. The FDA has reviewed and supports NCDHHS’s analytical findings and found that analytical results at this level could result in acute toxicity. WanaBana has agreed to voluntarily recall all WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit puree pouches regardless of expiration.

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Bill Marler

APRIL 13, 2022

Here is one of the best emails I received recently after Politico posted “The FDA’s Food Failure,” a 36-page investigation (Pulitzer Prize eligible) by Helena Bottemiller Evich that details the fact that food safety is not a high priority at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A new emailed comment: Good Morning Bill.

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Food Safety Tech

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today it has updated the nutritional requirements a food must meet to use the claim “healthy” on the package, which includes criteria a food must meet to use the healthy claim on the package. For more details, see Use of the Term Healthy on Food Labeling.

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Bill Marler

MARCH 2, 2024

The FDA has confirmed that lead chromate is the source of lead and chromium in cinnamon applesauce marketed for children and imported from Ecuador. Leaders at the FDA continue to believe the contamination was intentional. FDA’s leading hypothesis remains that this was likely an act of economically motivated adulteration.”

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Beginning Friday night, FDA employees overseeing food ingredients received calls and emails notifying them that their recent terminations had been rescinded effective immediately, according to messages viewed by AP. FDA staffers who were reinstated said their immediate supervisors received no explanation or advance notice on the decisions.

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Food Safety Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shared final results from their testing of domestic and imported bottled water collected at retail locations across the U.S. The FDA tested the bottled water samples for 18 types of PFAS, including the six PFAS for which EPA established MCLs in drinking water.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The FDA says it’s conducting an inspection of that facility. But so far all of the signals we’re getting lead to an intentional act on the part of someone in the supply chain and we’re trying to sort of figure that out,” Jones said in an exclusive interview.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The FDA is busy trying to keep our food supply save and get dangerous foods off the market.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The FDA is busy trying to find the links to two E. Interestingly, neither the FDA, CDC nor any state health department is reporting on the Listeria outbreak that has sickened 11. However, the FDA published a recall notice for HMC nectarines, peaches and plums after the peaches seem to have been linked to the illnesses.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

The food industry as a whole and the FDA should be embarrassed and actually do something to make sure that something like this never happens again. Updates about the investigation can be found on the FDA’s website, Investigation of Elevated Lead Levels: Cinnamon Applesauce Pouches (November 2023) | FDA.

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Bill Marler

JULY 20, 2022

What is perplexing is the FDA’s silence if not downplaying of the link. The FDA provided this statement to the press yesterday: It seems like this is the perfect time for the FDA to “float down to Peru” and see what is up with Tara? In litigation, I will force that disclosure.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The FDA’s proposed reorganization package includes new updates that not only shift how the agency’s food and field work is conducted, but also impacts a number of additional FDA offices outside of these programs. We are hopeful that implementation can begin in calendar year 2024.

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Bill Marler

JULY 21, 2022

According to the FDA, the Investigation of Adverse Event Reports: French Lentil & Leek Crumbles (June 2022) and no mention of Revive Pineapple and Mango Smoothies. The FDA warns: Do not eat, sell, or serve recalled French Lentil & Leek Crumbles from Daily Harvest.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 23, 2024

Eshoo (D-CA), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and Ranking Member Kathy Castor (D-FL) wrote to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf to request a briefing regarding the possible intentional contamination of applesauce pouches.

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Food Safety Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

’s March 10 directive to the FDA to explore eliminating the “self-affirmed” Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) pathway, which allows companies to determine food ingredient safety without FDA review. This would complement the FDA’s recently announced Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool. Kennedy, Jr.’s

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I have been spending the long Labor Day weekend digging deep into the state health departments, FDA and CDC documents surrounding the 2022 Wendy’s E. Here is the FDA Traceback Diagram – expect subpoenas. coli Outbreak that sickens 109, putting dozens in the hospital, with several children suffering acute kidney failure.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Included in the document are highlights of the recently released Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Best Practices for Retail Food Stores, Restaurants, and Food Pick-Up/Delivery Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Employee health. Cleaning/sanitizing/disinfecting.

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Food Safety Tech

APRIL 23, 2025

In a room filled with MAHA Moms, the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and HHS Secretary Robert F. The FDA is fast-tracking the review of calcium phosphate, Galdieria extract blue, gardenia blue, butterfly pea flower extract, and other natural alternatives to synthetic food dyes. Kennedy, Jr.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2023

How long would it take you to produce all that information when the FDA came calling? The requirements do not apply to all foods, but to a subset listed in the FDA’s Food Traceability List (FTL) and to foods that contain listed foods as ingredients. The FDA set a compliance deadline of January 20, 2026.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 12, 2023

Over at FDA, things are a bit more active with active outbreak investigations with 1 Listeria outbreak tied to ice cream that has sickened 2 and 1 hepatitis an outbreak linked to frozen strawberries that has impacted 10. It seems quiet over at USDA/FSIS with only one active investigation of a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 16.

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Bill Marler

JULY 28, 2022

The FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, is investigating consumer complaints of gastrointestinal illness and abnormal liver function that may be attributable to eating Daily Harvest French Lentil & Leek Crumbles frozen product. FDA’s investigation is ongoing, and more information will be provided as it becomes available.

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Food Safety Magazine

APRIL 18, 2025

FDA is rumored to face significant budget cuts proposed by the White House that would shift the responsibility for routine food facility inspections to states. Additionally, due to layoffs, FDA has suspended its proficiency testing program for food testing laboratories and its efforts to bolster avian influenza testing in food products.

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Food Safety Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

consumers, the FDA establishes or utilizes tolerances, action levels and guidance levels for some contaminants in food. The FDA uses these levels to help minimize or prevent chemical hazards in food. Code of Federal Regulations, FDA Guidance for Industry). action level, guidance level), level value and reference (e.g.,

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is using legislation to advance food safety progress and recommending the use of digital technology to support instantaneous, automated data exchange that enhances product traceability. Later this year, the FDA will propose mandatory traceability requirements for “high-risk” foods?

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Food Safety Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2025

In response to external pressures, FDA has revoked its authorization for the use of red dye 3 in food. Despite its decision, the agency maintains that the available scientific information does not support claims of the colorant being harmful to human health through dietary exposure.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JANUARY 19, 2025

The FDA is amending its color additive regulations to no longer allow for the use of FD&C Red No. link] [link] FDA to Revoke Authorization for the Use of Red No. 3 in Food and Ingested Drugs Constituent Update January 15, 2025 The FDA is revoking the authorization for the use of FD&C Red No. FD&C Red No.

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Food Safety Magazine

APRIL 22, 2025

and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary announced FDA's plan to work with industry to phase out synthetic, petroleum-based dyes from the nations food supply. In an April 22 press conference, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Food Safety Magazine

APRIL 8, 2025

Leaked to Inside Health Policy , an HHS proposed reorganization plan for FDA would eliminate the agencys product-specific centers in favor of five new function-focused offices.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 30, 2021

FDA Announces “Healthy” Claims Consumer Research : On May 6, 2021, the FDA issued a procedural notice on the preliminary quantitative consumer research it plans to conduct on symbols that could be used in the future to convey the nutrient content claim “healthy.”

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

FDAs leadership webpage was updated this week to include Mr. Diamantas and stated that as the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, he leads the agencys Human Foods Program, overseeing all FDA nutrition and food safety activities. Prior to coming to FDA, Diamantas worked at the law firm Jones Day.

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Bill Marler

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Well the bad news about outbreaks linked to leafy greens they are spilling over from 2021 to 2022. The more things change, the more things stay the same. Outbreaks associated with lettuce, specifically the “pre-washed” and “ready-to-eat” varieties, are by no means a new phenomenon.

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Bill Marler

MAY 21, 2020

This is not meant as a criticism of my friends at the FDA or the good people at LGMA – California and Arizona – or at Western Growers, United Fresh or PMA. According to a report by the FDA released today, in November and December 2019 there were three E. But seriously, since leafy green E. coli O157:H7 foodborne illness outbreaks.

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Food Safety Tech

APRIL 28, 2025

The post HHS Reinstates Some Laid Off FDA Staffers appeared first on FoodSafetyTech. Scientists in those labs studied a variety of aspects of food safety, from how chemicals and germs pass through food packaging to methods for keeping bacteria out of infant formula.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Product recalls, market withdrawals, and safety alerts are becoming more common, with over 1700 tracked by the FDA to date this year. In 2018, there were a combined 656 FDA and USDA recalls , and there has been an 83 percent increase in Class 1 recalls of meat and poultry alone since 2013.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I have a word for the FDA and CDC – “Transparency.”. Thanks to Food Safety News for reporting this out: The FDA has determined an outbreak of infections from Salmonella Typhimurium was from contaminated cantaloupe and declared its investigation over. . Additional information on this outbreak will be forthcoming,” according to the FDA.

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MenuTrinfo

JANUARY 28, 2025

At MenuTrinfo, following FDA guidelines has always been our policy. We take great care to guarantee that our services, training and Certified Free From allergen certifications reflect the most current and accurate allergen information outlined by the FDA as a governing body. What changed as of January 6th, 2025?

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