Tag: food safety/FSMA
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FDA Releases Fee Guide for Implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued industry guidance concerning new fee provisions under the Food Safety Modernization Act. The guidance aims to provide answers to common questions about FDA’s plans for implementing the fees in fiscal year 2012. In particular, the guidance addresses such topics as fees for import re-inspections and non-compliance of…
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FDA Issues Plan to Improve Food Science
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its “Strategic Plan for Regulatory Science,” a document deemed to be the agency’s “blueprint for overhauling the science it uses to develop and evaluate food, medicines, and medical devices.” In a section underscoring the agency’s emphasis on food safety, the document focuses on prevention and risk-based priorities…
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FSMA Fees and Burdens on Small Business on FDA Docket
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a notice and request for comments about fiscal year 2012 fees under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The fee rates, intended to “capture 100 percent of the costs of each activity,” will be assessed for facility reinspections, recalls and importer reinspections. If no foreign travel is required,…
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Mark Bittman, “Irradiation and the ‘Ick Factor,’” The New York Times, July 26, 2011
“The big question is this: How do we get the safest and most ethical food system possible while adequately feeding ourselves?,” asks New York Times columnist Mark Bittman in this latest opinion piece supporting “a massive overhaul of the food system.” Discussing recent E. coli outbreaks in Europe, Bittman concedes that the controversial process known…
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Industry Coalition Seeks Regulatory Exemption for Packaged Foods Storage
The American Bakers Association and a number of other industry trade associations have submitted a citizen petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking regulations that would exempt those businesses engaged in storing packaged foods from hazard analysis and prevention controls applicable to food producers and processors. The petition notes that under the Food…
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Court Refuses to Dismiss Claims That Safeway Must Warn Loyalty Customers About Recalls
A federal court in California has denied Safeway, Inc.’s motion to dismiss or stay proceedings alleging that it has an obligation to use information in its loyalty card customer database to provide email notice about produce recalls ordered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or U.S. Department of Agriculture. Hensley-Maclean v. Safeway, Inc., No.…
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FDA Meeting to Target FSMA’s Inspections, Compliance Provisions
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a public meeting to discuss inspections and compliance provisions of the recently enacted Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Set for June 6, 2011, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the meeting will allow stakeholders to comment on FSMA’s implementation strategies regarding (i) “enforcement authorities”; (ii) “frequency and targeting of…
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Imported Food Safety Target of IOM Meeting
The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Food and Nutrition Board has announced a June 7, 2011, meeting that will focus on the safety of imported foods “with the purposed of engaging science, technology, and policy personnel representing the global food supply chain, government agencies, and academia.” Titled “Food Forum Meeting on Supply Chain and Policy/Regulatory Approaches…