The Consumer Goods Forum’s Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) has opened a new stakeholder consultation for IFS Food Standard, Version 8 ..read more

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published its 2022 report on pesticide residues in food in the EU ..read more

A Biosurveillance Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (BISR) system would address two mission-critical requirements for biosurveillance to detect and prevent outbreaks: rapid detection and predictive analysis ..read more

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Francine Shaw, CP-FS, FMP, Founder and CEO of Savvy Food Safety Inc. and author of Who Watches the Kitchen? for a discussion about foodservice food safety, including topics like common food safety mistakes and mitigation practices, technologies for retail food safety, and more. Additionally, Bob Ferguson discusses his latest “Food Safety Insights” column on food safety professionals’ thoughts about the future of rapid testing ..read more

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) recently published an analysis of national data regarding cases and outbreaks of non-typhoidal Salmonella from 2013–2022 ..read more

The fifth annual meeting of the International Head of Food Agencies Forum (IHFAF) convened in Singapore from April 16–20, 2024, bringing together food safety officials from 18 countries and representatives from international food safety and public health organizations ..read more

In a letter addressed to key U.S. congressional leaders, the Safe Food Coalition (SFC) expressed its opposition to the DIRECT Act, the PRIME Act, and the New Markets Act, which would lift prohibitions on the interstate sale of meat and poultry from state inspected facilities and allow commercial sales from uninspected “custom” slaughter facilities ..read more

North American distributor BAK Food Equipment recently announced a name change from one of its partners—Poland-based Nowicki Food Machinery has become NOMA, effective immediately ..read more

The Alliance for a Stronger FDA has published its “ask” for Fiscal Year 2025 funding for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which is $214 million more than the Presidential budget request submitted by FDA for FY 2025 ..read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated two types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS)—as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA Act, also known as the Superfund Act ..read more