Regulatory Compliance

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Regulatory Deadlines
Regulatory Compliance

A Year of Regulatory Deadlines

March 6, 2025
Time is running out on meeting rules from both food safety agencies; here’s what you need to be working on this year.
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International

Canada Blocks Pork Shipments from Smithfield Tar Heel, N.C., Plant

March 7, 2025
The fifth-largest export market for U.S. pork stopped accepting shipments of pork from the largest pork processing facility in the nation.
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Regulatory Compliance

Tariffs on Food: A Cascading Threat to Food Safety, Quality and Legitimacy

March 5, 2025
Processors will need to redouble their efforts to provide safe, high-quality, unadulterated products in the face of the financial burden and subsequent temptation to cut corners...
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People on the Move

RFK Jr., Rollins Sworn in to Lead HHS and USDA, Respectively

Feb. 14, 2025
Robert Kennedy Jr. confirmed in a tight vote, while Brooke Rollins will take over the USDA in a 72-28 vote.
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Regulatory Compliance

FDA Unveils its Proposed Front-of-Package Labeling System

Jan. 14, 2025
Called the Nutrition Info box, it would detail the relative amounts of three nutrients—saturated fat, sodium and added sugars—in a serving of food and would appear on the package...
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Cleaning, Sanitation, Hygiene

Taylor Farms Responds to FDA Observations in Wake of McDonald’s 2024 Slivered Onions Foodborne Illness Outbreak

Jan. 13, 2025
FDA inspection of company’s Colorado Springs, Colo., facility in November 2024 finds food-safety shortcomings that Taylor Farms says it has since taken corrective action to remedy...
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Regulatory Compliance

Food Safety & Regulatory 2025: A Year of Change

The Acheson Group says the new administration might be the best shot ever at a single food safety agency; keep an eye on chemical additives being talked about and think how you...
Food Safety

Boar’s Head Appoints Frank Yiannas to Interim Chief Food Safety Officer

Oct. 4, 2024
Three weeks after announcing it would hire a CFSO, the deli meat processor has elevated one of its new independent food safety council members to lead the search and spearhead...
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Food Safety

Boar’s Head Closing Jarratt, Virginia, Plant Tied to Deadly Listeria Outbreak

Sept. 13, 2024
Company announces it will also discontinue liverwurst production and appoints four national food safety experts to a new food safety council who will advise a new chief food safety...
Regulatory Compliance

Power Lunch: Sodium, Science & Stakeholders – Advancing FDA’s Targets

Sept. 10, 2024
The Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences is working to help industry reduce sodium and meet FDA’s new voluntary targets.
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Regulatory Compliance

USDA Turns Up the Heat on Meat and Poultry ‘No Antibiotics’ Claims

Sept. 3, 2024
The agency found 20% of cattle sampled that were destined for product to be labeled as “raised without antibiotics” had antibiotic residues present in liver, kidneys.