The European Commission’s health and safety division has published findings from two assessments looking at controls on milk and dairy products in Austria and Slovakia.
A DG Sante audit in January 2023 made seven recommendations
Continue Reading DG Sante audits show Austria, Slovakia can improve raw milk controls
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent.
Continue Reading FDA sends Cooperstown Cheese Company warning after inspection finds Listeria in facility
The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts
Continue Reading FDA steps up enforcement activities on imported cantaloupe and other foods
The year 2023 ends with brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell in very different places in their Habeas Corpus appeals at the Circuit Court in Atlanta. Stewart Parnell, who was permitted to appeal, has exchanged arguments
Continue Reading Parnell brothers remain incarcerated but start 2024 in very different placesA federal court has enjoined a California company to stop manufacturing and distributing adulterated food products that violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).
In a civil complaint filed on Oct. 11, 2022
Continue Reading Court Enjoins California food company from manufacturing and distributing adulterated food
Olive oil featured heavily in a range of operations conducted in recent months by authorities in Portugal that also covered game meat, shellfish and supplements.
Earlier this month, the Food and Economic Safety Authority (ASAE)
Continue Reading Olive oil dominated recent operations in PortugalThe petition by the Meat Import Council of America (MICA) and the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA) to allow grants of inspections for foreign meat “beyond a 50-mile geographic radius of a U.S. land or
Continue Reading Food safety requires foreign meat inspections within 50 miles of the border
A project funded by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has found American sweets and drinks on sale in the United Kingdom.
Some confectionery products imported from the United States aren’t meant to be sold in
Continue Reading UK operation finds unapproved U.S. products on sale
More information has been shared by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) about Salmonella in poultry meat and eggs from Poland.
There have been 200 cases of salmonellosis this year in the United Kingdom caused by
Continue Reading FSA steps up response to Salmonella in Polish poultry products
The FDA has released extensive information about the status of its work to improve its monitoring of infant formula production and its handling of complaints about the safety of formula.
Problems with the Food and
Continue Reading FDA revises organization, adds staff to address problems with infant formula