Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The FDA is alerting parents and caregivers about two varieties of LittleOak infant formulas that the company is currently recalling. food safety and nutritional standards. For example, the formulas contain some ingredients that the FDA has not yet evaluated to determine if they are safe for infant formula.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Califf, FDA Commissioner of Food and Drugs Last month was the first anniversary of the White House Conference and National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. The FDA continues to make significant progress in our nutrition efforts, which can help combat the diet-related disease epidemic. By: Robert M.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Mead Johnson Nutrition (Reckitt), and Perrigo Wisconsin, LLC. According to the FDA, this action is occurring within the context of its ongoing commitment to enhance regulatory oversight and reflects the agency’s determination to ensure optimal conditions for producing infant formula. 30, 2023, warning letter, the FDA described a Dec.

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MARCH 13, 2023

In the waning days of 2022, FDA issued an updated Food Code with several important updates. FDA is responsible for more than a quarter of the U.S. Generally speaking, FDA continues to leave a wide range of discretion to food service providers. economy, and the Food Code impacts virtually every American. goes uneaten.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

— OPINION — By Steven Grossman, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA. What started as a crisis over the safety and supply of infant formula became a wide-ranging review of FDA’s food programs by the Reagan-Udall Foundation. We have played a key role in the doubling of FDA’s taxpayer funding. Register her e.

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Food Safety Tech

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The FDA has issued a new guidance for industry that describes how firms can voluntarily engage with the FDA before marketing food from genome-edited plants. The guidance reaffirms that the risk-based approach the FDA has taken for foods derived from new plant varieties also applies to foods from genome-edited plants.

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APRIL 30, 2022

How confident should we feel with this waring from the FDA: “those seeking access [to the formula] should consult with their healthcare provider in considering whether the benefit of consuming such product outweighs the potential risk of bacterial infection in the user’s particular circumstances.”.

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JUNE 2, 2022

HHS, OIG posted this morning: The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to safeguard the Nation’s food supply, including infant formula, and ensure that all ingredients are safe. Food and Drug Administration. Food and Drug Administration’s Actions Regarding the Abbott Infant Formula Recall.

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Food Safety News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The FDA has released extensive information about the status of its work to improve its monitoring of infant formula production and its handling of complaints about the safety of formula. In response to those congressional demands, the FDA has stepped up inspection of infant formula production. 1, 2022, through Sept.

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Food Safety Tech

AUGUST 23, 2023

food supply in the face of climate change and globalization, as well as nutrition to help reduce diet-related diseases and improve health equity. Jones is scheduled to begin at the FDA on September 24, 2023. I’m delighted to welcome Jim to the FDA. For more than 30 years, Jones has held various positions in the U.S. Califf, M.D.

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Food Safety News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In response to the infant formula supply crisis in 2022 and the deadly infections that led to it, the FDA has updated its infant formula compliance program. Abbott Nutrition initiated a recall of Similac infant formula powder and other brands in February 2022. food supply are safe and nutritious,” according to a statement from FDA.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Comments received through the Stakeholder Portal will be shared with the Independent Expert Panel charged with generating the recommendations for FDA. The operational evaluation focuses on the structure/leadership, authority, resources, and culture of FDA’s human foods program.

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Food Safety News

AUGUST 23, 2023

EPA’s James “Jim” Jones was named Wednesday as the first FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, who came on board in February 2022, had little choice but to work on a reorganization plan. Jones is scheduled to begin at the FDA on Sept. I’m delighted to welcome Jim to the FDA.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

The proposed changes and updates to an FDA-wide reorganization plan have been out for external reviews and clearances since Dec. FDA will manage public health risks through three areas of focus: • nutrition, microbiological food safety, and chemical safety. . 13, 2023, and implementation should occur sometime during 2024.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Independent Expert Panel, charged with generating the report by December 6th, is comprised of researchers, former regulators, and process improvement specialists with disciplinary expertise and experience in epidemiology, food science and safety, microbiology, nutrition, and regulatory operations.

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Food Safety News

MARCH 11, 2024

The FDA’s request is less than 1 percent of President Biden’s proposed $7.3 The FDA requests an increase of $495 million above its current funding level. The FDA’s request reflects the agency’s top priorities in key areas of importance for human and animal health,” according to a Monday statement from the agency. “The

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MAY 14, 2022

This week the CDC declared an outbreak of Cronobacter infections over after the FDA received four complaints of Cronobacter infections in infants beginning on September 20, 2021, through January 11, 2022. Parents of all four infants reported having fed their children formula produced by Abbott Nutrition before they became ill.

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Food Quality & Safety

AUGUST 23, 2023

On August 23, James “Jim” Jones was named as FDA’s first-ever deputy commissioner of the Human Foods Program, effective September 24, 2023. Califf, MD, FDA commissioner, and exercise decision-making authority over all the program’s entities. In this role, Jones will report directly to Robert M.

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Bill Marler

APRIL 28, 2022

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today submitted for the record a report acquired from a whistleblower who worked at the Abbott facility which produces infant formula recalled by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February. Below are Chair DeLauro’s remarks.

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DECEMBER 11, 2021

There is an ongoing need for coordination of outbreak response within the FDA and with other federal and state agencies that touch on food safety.There is clearly an ongoing need to more effectively coordinated the multiple acronyms that make up governmental food safety responses at the federal, state, and local levels.

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Food Safety Tech

AUGUST 4, 2023

The FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is hosting a free hybrid public meeting entitled “Modernizing Food and Drug Administration Recalls Listening Session” on September 29, 2023, from 9:00am-5:00pm ET. The post FDA Announces Public Meeting on Modernizing Food Recalls appeared first on FoodSafetyTech.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The agency is working on the strategy as part of its response to an outbreak of illnesses and the subsequent temporary closure of the Abbott Nutrition production plant in Sturgis, MI. In response to the situation, the FDA initiated the development of a prevention strategy, with the draft released in November 2022. “At

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Food Safety Tech

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

On December 6, the FDA and Stop Foodborne Illness will co-host the ninth complimentary webinar in the ongoing series, Collaborating on Culture in the New Era of Smarter Food Safety. Those interested in attending can register here.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The FDA and Stop Foodborne Illness are hosting the eighth webinar in the ongoing series of webinars exploring food safety culture on September 13, 2023, from 12pm to 1:00pm ET. The post FDA and Stop Foodborne Illness to Co-Host Webinar on Facing Food Safety Challenges appeared first on FoodSafetyTech.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. A food firm in California is on notice from the FDA for serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventative Controls for Human Food regulation. 7, 2023, warning letter, the FDA described a Feb. In a Sept.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

MAY 13, 2024

FDA issued a Warning Letter to a Chinese manufacture of RTE soy protein isolate. FDA inspected the food manufacturing facility, located in Ye County, Pingdingshan, Henan, 467200, China from August 15 to 17, 2023. It is your responsibility to ensure that your firm complies with all requirements of federal law, including FDA regulations.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A senator and representative have introduced legislation that would give the FDA and CDC authority to enter and collect samples at feedlots during foodborne illness outbreaks. coli outbreak investigation, the FDA traced the strain of outbreak E. The FDA also determined that nearby cattle were likely the source of E.

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Food Quality & Safety

AUGUST 9, 2023

FDA and USDA both recently announced efforts to review label claims, with the goal of increasing consumer trust in and reliance on label claims. Front-of-pack labeling schemes that currently exist on the market are not enforced by FDA, nor are these schemes expressly permitted by FDA regulations. Product of the U.S.A.”

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Bill Marler

MAY 19, 2022

In 30 years of practice, I have on numerous occasions offered to FDA leadership the opportunity to meet directly with the people who consumed food that was tainted under the FDA’s watch. He had no meaningful vocalizations and was receiving nutrition through a feeding tube.

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Food Quality & Safety

JULY 13, 2023

In late June, FDA announced an update to its January 31 proposal to create a unified Human Foods Program (HFP), which includes a new model for the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA). The post FDA Updates Plan for Human Foods Program appeared first on Food Quality & Safety.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Capra Products of Chehalis, Washington, is recalling 1,506 boxes of Goat Milk Formula Recipe Kit on the recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and advises consumers to immediately discontinue use of the product as infant formula. FDA notified Mt. FDA notified Mt. Capra Products Brand Name: Mt.

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Food Safety News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

According to the FDA, food safety culture stands as a cornerstone in the FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

The FDA has put out a call for input on whether the Brix level (the minimum soluble solids content) in pasteurized orange juice needs to be amended. The request comes on the heels of a July 22 petition from the Florida Citrus Processors Association and Florida Citrus Mutual asking FDA to decrease the Brix level from 10.5%

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MAY 17, 2022

According to the CDC and FDA, at least 4 kids were sickened and of those two died, from drinking Abbott infant formula. Under the proposed consent decree, Abbott Nutrition will be required to retain an independent expert to review the Sturgis facility’s operations to ensure compliance with the law. Abbott denies the connection.

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APRIL 22, 2024

These concerns were provided to Sammy’s Milk in a meeting with FDA this week that identified representations on the Sammy’s Milk website and social media platforms that could be interpreted to indicate the product is safe for infants to consume. While Sammy’s Milk is specifically formulated for children between the ages of 12 and 36 months.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

And as the FDA returns to pre-public health emergency status, restaurant menu labeling compliance is making a comeback. The restaurant industry is not just about offering delicious food; it's also about ensuring that your customers have access to accurate and essential information about the meals they’ll be enjoying.

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MARCH 7, 2024

"Following the October 2023 recall of cinnamon apple puree and applesauce products due to elevated lead levels linked to the cinnamon in those products and the concern for lead toxicity in children, the FDA initiated a targeted survey of ground cinnamon products from discount retail stores and analyzed the samples for lead and chromium."

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