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Food Safety News
Pushback Begins Against FSMA On-the-Farm Rules
By Dan Flynn
UPDATE: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended today's deadline for comments for both the produce rule and the preventive controls rule for one week to make up…
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FDA Should Expand Focus and Adopt Food Systems Approach to Safety
By Dan Winters
Want to hear something delicious? Recently the Food and Drug Administration reported that 12 percent of all U.S. spice imports were contaminated with non-spice-like objects, including whole insects and rodent…
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Regulations.gov Access Interrupted as FSMA Comment Deadline Looms
By Lydia Zuraw
Stakeholders hoping to submit their comments on two Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) proposed rules have been frustrated to find interrupted access to Regulations.gov, the portal for commenting on pending…
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FDA's Proposed Produce Rule: A War on Farmers
By David R. Cohen, LexBlog Admin
The deadline for comments on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Produce Safety Rule is Nov. 15, 2013. This was probably supposed to be the easiest and most straightforward of…
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Potato Industry's New Safety Guide Emphasizes Best Practices
By News Desk
Since the potato is rarely consumed raw, it is expected to be excluded from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's forthcoming produce rules implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act. In…
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Consumer and Public Health Groups: FDA Should Not Delay FSMA Implementation
(The FDA's important food safety work, like the rest of the agency's mission and much of the federal government, is currently on hold due to the government shutdown. But once…
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Produce Association Joins Call for Makeover of FSMA Rules
By Dan Flynn
A late-blooming plan to ease the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's current rulemaking to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) has picked up a powerful lobbying ally. The Hagstrom…
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FDA Barely Considers Biological, Chemical and Radiological Inputs in Proposed Produce Rule
By David R. Cohen, LexBlog Admin
Violating the explicit language of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA), the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Proposed Produce Rule gives a complete pass to imported vegetables grown with sewage…
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State Ag Directors Want Congress to Give FDA More Time on FSMA Rules
By Dan Flynn
State agricultural officials say that when it comes to writing rules to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act, the U.S, Food and Drug Administration needs to take a mulligan and…
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As FDA Implements FSMA, NASDA Seeks Support to Get the Rules Right
By Bob Ehart
Assurance of safe, wholesome food is a responsibility of all of us in the food chain, whether producer, regulator or consumer. When a foodborne illness is identified, National Association of…