Category: Issue 415

  • FDA Issues Guidance on Evaluating Safety of Flood-Affected Crops

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the availability of guidance aimed at helping industry evaluate the safety of flood-affected crops for human consumption. According to FDA, growers are responsible for ensuring the safety of food affected by flood waters, which “may have been exposed to sewage, chemicals, heavy metals, pathogenic microorganisms, or other…

  • FDA Issues Guidance on Detention of Human, Animal Food

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued industry guidance concerning the “administrative detention of human or animal food.” Providing information about FDA’s authority under the Food Safety and Modernization Act to hold adulterated or misbranded food and prevent it from reaching the marketplace, the guidance explains who can approve an administrative detention order, what…

  • House Committee Begins Investigating Jensen Farm Owners in Listeria Outbreak

    The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has requested that the owners of Jensen Farms, identified as the source of the cantaloupe contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes responsible for a nationwide foodborne illness outbreak, schedule a briefing with committee staff. The October 21, 2011, letter also asks that Ryan and Eric Jensen “preserve all documents and…