The Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) has released most of the details for its 128th Annual Educational Conference. The June 9-12 event is scheduled to be held in Grand Rapids, MI.
AFDO’s Annual
Continue Reading AFDO’s 2024 conference set for Grand Rapids
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
Those well-funded animal activists ran a marathon ending Jan. 1 with full implementation of California’s Proposition 12. The first day of 2024 marks the successful end to more than six years of political efforts.
Proposition
Continue Reading California’s Prop 12 is now the law of the land
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 foodsKratom, the tropical tree native to Southeast Asia, isn’t lawfully marketed in the U.S.— not as a drug product, a dietary supplement, or a food additive in conventional food. However, products prepared from kratom leaves
Continue Reading Industry group calls for FDA regulation of Kratom
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 places
Montana’s First Judicial District Court is being asked to review the state Legislature’s “Food Freedom” bills enacted in 2021 and 2023. The legislation is known as the “Montana Local Food Choice Act.”
The legal action
Continue Reading Montana’s new “Food Freedom” Act may violate the state’s constitutionA 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 Portugal