California’s Proposition 12, set to take effect early next year, poses a challenge as it plans to restrict pork products from non-compliant locations, impacting the market. Senator Josh Hawley introduces the Protecting Interstate Commerce for Livestock Producers Act, offering a…
The Food Standards Agency will be discussing the proposals made in Owen’s Law at its next Board meeting in December. On 13 December, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is set to discuss the proposals made in a potential “Owen’s Law”…
Lithuanian authorities have uncovered a number of hygiene violations at different producers in a series of recent operations. In the first case, the State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) inspectors found an illegal meat canning factory in the garage of…
A raw milk dairy that lost its permit to sell its products in September is being reinstated by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF). The permit to sell raw milk is reinstated for the Utah Natural Meat and…
A court in Australia has ruled that I Cook Foods was unfairly ordered to close and destroy products in relation to a Listeria incident in 2019. However, the judgment by the Supreme Court of Victoria dismissed the company’s application for…
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued recall warnings about various brands of caffeinated drinks. We are aware of non-compliant caffeinated energy drinks (CEDs) being sold to consumers by various importers, retailers and also online. This is a reminder…
The first European Food Safety Forum is set to take place in Belgium this week. The event, on Nov. 28 and 29, in Brussels, will gather food safety stakeholders in Europe, to share knowledge, best practices, and address critical food…
The Canadian Salmonella outbreak from cantaloupe is quickly catching up with the patient count in the United States related outbreak. Both Countries have reported fatalities, with one dead in Canada and two dead in the United States. The implicated cantaloupe…
The FDA has reported 10 hospitalisations and one death as a result of the outbreak, which has currently been limited to some fruit products including peaches, plums, and nectarines. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for…
The FDA has proposed a rule to revoke regulation that allows the use of brominated vegetable oil in food based on data and remaining “unresolved safety questions”. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed to revoke the regulation…