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Scenic Fruit Company of Gresham, Oregon is recalling frozen organic strawberries sold to Costco, Aldi, KeHE, Vital Choice Seafood, PCC Community Markets and frozen organic tropical blend sold to Trader Joe’s due to an outbreak of Hepatitis A illnesses.

Our era may see a shift in public nutrition policy like the one launched against cigarette smoking in the 1960s.

GS1 US has published a new guideline to help the food industry leverage GS1 Standards to help address the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Food Traceability Final Rule, which requires additional traceability records for certain foods under Section 204 of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

Those who (like everyone in the produce industry) have a vested interest in food safety may have been following the shakeups, real and proposed, for the troubled Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The proposed restructuring of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on January 31 by FDA commissioner Robert Califf is important enough that it’s worth uncracking the bureaucratese.

The International Fresh Produce Association welcomed today’s announcement by FDA Commissioner Califf describing structural changes to the Foods Program at the Food and Drug Administration, and anxiously awaits additional details in late February, as indicated by the Commissioner.

Under this plan, the functions of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Food Policy and Response, as well as certain functions of Office of Regulatory Affairs will be unified into a newly envisioned organization called the Human Foods Program.

A diverse coalition of food policy stakeholders representing consumers, industry, and state and local regulators reiterated its call for significant structural reform of FDA’s foods program ahead of the agency’s anticipated January 31 announcement on how it intends to implement recommendations from a report by the Reagan-Udall Foundation.

Frank Yiannas, who has been the deputy commissioner for food policy and response at the Food and Drug Administration since 2018, resigned and will leave his position next month.

The intended enforcement discretion period for the harvest and post-harvest agricultural water provisions for covered produce (other than sprouts) in the Produce Safety Rule ends on January 26, 2023 for all businesses other than small and very small businesses.