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Progress Report: US-Mexico Food Safety Agreement

Posted on August 24, 2021

As we have previously reported, in September 2020, Mexico and Canada signed a Statement of Intent (SOI), which expanded the countries’ partnership in dealing with food safety issues. Among

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FDA Plans Summit on E-Commerce and Food Safety

Posted on July 30, 2021

FDA announced it plans to host a three-day virtual event on October 19–21 , 2021. The agency seeks to discuss and exchange perspectives with industry stakeholders and interested parties about

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FDA Releases Cyclospora Action Plan

Posted on July 2, 2021

FDA released its Cyclospora Prevention, Response, and Research Action Plan on July 1 as part of FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety initiative. The Action Plan is modeled after

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FDA Launches Food Safety Traceability Challenge

Posted on June 3, 2021

Last year we reported on FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint, which outlines the Agency’s plan to create a safer food system over the next decade. The

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FDA Releases New Outbreak Investigation Table

Posted on November 20, 2020

On November 18, 2020, FDA released the Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Investigation Table, a tool to publish early information on all foodborne outbreaks that the FDA is

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FDA Holds Webinar on The First 100 Days: New Era of Smarter Food Safety

Posted on October 27, 2020

On October 26, 2020, the FDA held a webinar in which it discussed its progress in implementing the blueprint for the New Era of Smarter Food Safety and its vision

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FDA Announces a One Year Pilot Program to Evaluate Third-Party Food Safety Standards and Invites Requests to Participate

Posted on October 26, 2020

FDA’s regulations implementing the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) requirements for Preventive Controls for Human Food (PCHF), Preventive Controls for Animal Food (PCAF), and Foreign Supplier Verification Programs (FSVP)

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FDA Releases a New EPA-Approved Protocol for Evaluating the Efficacy of Antimicrobial Pesticides in Agricultural Water

Posted on August 3, 2020

In the United States between 2009 and 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified 40 outbreaks of food-borne illness

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FDA Publishes New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint

Posted on July 15, 2020

On July 13, the FDA announced its New Era of Smarter Food Safety Blueprint, which outlines the Agency’s plan to create a safer food system over the next decade.

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FDA Launches Dashboard to Track FSMA Progress

Posted on October 1, 2019

On September 30, 2019, FDA announced the establishment of the Food Safety Dashboard, which is designed to measure the progress of the seven foundational rules of the Food Safety Modernization

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