A global food standards-setting body has advanced work on various issues, including lead levels, Ciguatera, and tropane alkaloids. The latest Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food session was held in Panama City in April. New maximum levels (MLs) were agreed for lead in various spices, including dried aril, dried seeds, dried rhizomes and roots including galangal

A food safety hero of mine, Mike Taylor, during the debate over the Food Safety Modernization Act, called Food Safety News, “The newspaper of record on food safety.” To that I agree, and am so proud of the past and present writers. We had and still have a hell of a team. They have been

In the food industry, 3D printing allows for automated customisability. The technology is used to make everything from gummies​ to plant-based meat​ and seafood​, with innovators backing its precision and potential to scale.Conversely, less is heard about 2D printing. But that’s the technology German food brand Veganz is leveraging for its new oat milk product.

A food safety line item in the federal budget would go a long way toward “bringing clarity and certainty” to the human foods programs of the Food and Drug Administration. House and Senate Appropriations leaders are finding themselves subject to just such a lobbying approach by some 21 consumer and industry groups as well as

Photo illustration of a banh mi sandwich Almost 550 people have fallen sick in a large food poisoning outbreak in Vietnam. People were taken ill after eating at a bakery in Long Khánh, a city in Đồng Nai Province. In the past week, 547 people were sickened, according to the Dong Nai Department of Health.

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, as posted by the agency, are listed below.  Click here to go to the FDA page with links to details

The Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction as part of its enforcement activities. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company

South Korea already has a strict food safety process in place for livestock product imports that requires specific export certification, which MFDS has announced will be expanded to cover animal-based foods in order to ensure hygiene and safety requirements are met.“MFDS has expanded the import hygiene evaluation system that is currently applied to livestock products

The food industry is facing a whole host of challenges, from increasing energy prices to the impact of geopolitical unrest on supply imports, but the greatest challenge is undoubtedly climate change.And climate change itself is impacting the food industry in multiple ways, one of these being ‘heatflation’.What is heatflation?​Extreme weather events across the globe have

The trend in gut health​ is everywhere and consumers are looking for products that will benefit their microbiomes.But gut health is far more complex than meets the eye. The gut microbiome influences how we function in an array of different ways, and provides an inordinate amount of potential for entrepreneurs.Here, we look at just three