In an effort to promote dialogue between different sectors of California agriculture regarding ways to prevent future foodborne illness outbreaks, the California Department of Food and Agriculture in collaboration with the University of California and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are bringing both the livestock and produce communities together in a series of workshops ...
In October 2018, the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Environmental Health sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for failing to meet statutory deadlines found in 2011’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the Administrative Procedures Act. The Center for Food Safety and the Center for Environmental Health said that under ...
On June 5, Fresh Express released an Interim Report by its Blue-Ribbon Panel on the Prevention of Foodborne Cyclospora Outbreaks. Multiple Cyclospora outbreaks were reported in the United States in the spring and summer of 2018, linking the outbreaks to fresh produce items and their suppliers. To address these outbreaks, Fresh Express formed a Blue-Ribbon ...
IEG Policy/Food Chemical News recently reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found no strains of E. coli or Salmonella in a recent commercial cooler sampling assignment that targeted romaine lettuce in the Yuma, Arizona and Imperial Valley region in California. The findings were revealed in a letter that FDA Deputy Commissioner for ...