FDA Announces FREE-B, A New Tool for Food-Emergency Readiness
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration with other federal partners including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the...
Back to Square One on Non-O157 STECs
A little over a month ago, on June 3, 2011, Deputy Director Donald Kraemer of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food...
FDA Issues a Statement About the European E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak
Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a press release about the current E. coli O104 outbreak in Europe. The full text of the...
FDA Seeks Permanent Injunction Against Seafood Company
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, announced that it...
FDA Takes Steps Toward Greater Transparency
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced recently that it is disclosing more information about inspections and court actions, and now has a web...
FDA seeks permanent injunction against Louisiana sprout company
Sprouts are a food item that have been associated with outbreaks of foodborne disease on multiple occasions in the past decade, including a major Salmonella...
Class I Beef Recall due to E. coli Contamination
West Missouri Beef, LLC has voluntarily recalled 14,000 pounds of boneless beef products due to potential contamination by E. coli O157:H7. USDA's Food Safety and...
Mandatory Food Code Adoption by the States: one of many good projects for FDA and Michael Taylor
As the newly appointed deputy commissioner for food safety at the FDA, Michael Taylor has a lot on his plate. Many different things to accomplish,...
A question about the FDA's Reportable Food Registry
On Tuesday, the FDA certainly took a step in the right direction by implementing the Reportable Food Registry, under federal regulations codified at 21 USC...
Three strains of E. coli O157:H7 found in cookie plant
ABC News reported today that three separate strains of E. coli O157:H7 have been found in a Nestle USA cookie dough processing plant. ABC's Briant...
