Category: Issue 415
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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…
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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…