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The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) recently revised its cannabis and food safety resources. The updated resources...
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The FDA’s Retail Food Protection Staff is pleased to announce the posting of “5 Tips to Consider When Preparing Recommendations to...
A new report is available from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) for enteric bacteria. The 2016-2017...
Looking for data on foodborne illness burden and trends? Check out the new and improved FoodNet Fast, CDC’s online toolbox for...
Recommendation FDA, CDC, and state health authorities are investigating an outbreak of illnesses caused by E. coli O157:H7 in the...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is posting results from the second round of testing for 16 types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made available the Supplement to the 2017 Food Code. The update addresses...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final guidance to help manufacturers of packaged foods comply with the FDA’s updated...
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) recently revised its cannabis and food safety resources. The updated resources include a glossary of terms and food safety guidance for cannabis-infused products. Learn more.
The FDA’s Retail Food Protection Staff is pleased to announce the posting of “5 Tips to Consider When Preparing Recommendations to Change Retail Food Policy.” Developing recommended changes for the most effective, efficient, and feasible policy for retail food is challenging. This tip sheet provides information individuals should consider when preparing retail food policy recommendations,...
A new report is available from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) for enteric bacteria. The 2016-2017 NARMS Integrated Summary was released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with its NARMS partners, CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The report’s new streamlined format will enable NARMS partners […]
Looking for data on foodborne illness burden and trends? Check out the new and improved FoodNet Fast, CDC’s online toolbox for accessing information reported to the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet). Pathogen Surveillance Tool: See how rates of illness have changed in FoodNet’s surveillance area since 1996 for nine pathogens transmitted commonly through food: […]
Recommendation FDA, CDC, and state health authorities are investigating an outbreak of illnesses caused by E. coli O157:H7 in the U.S. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback evidence indicates that romaine lettuce from the Salinas, California growing region is the likely source of this outbreak. Current traceback investigations have identified a common grower in Salinas. FDA, CDC, […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is posting results from the second round of testing for 16 types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in foods collected for the Total Diet Study (TDS). These findings, along with the first round of testing results posted in October 2019, will inform our continued work to understand the […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made available the Supplement to the 2017 Food Code. The update addresses recommendations made by regulatory officials, industry, academia, and consumers at the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Conference for Food Protection. The Food Code and its Supplement provide government and industry with practical, science-based controls for […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a final guidance to help manufacturers of packaged foods comply with the FDA’s updated Nutrition Facts labeling regulations. The final guidance addresses serving sizes of foods, including single-serving foods and other foods that can reasonably be consumed at one eating occasion and require dual-column labeling. It finalizes a draft guidance […]
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