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Features: Despite Delays in Implementation of FSMA, the Food Industry Moves Forward
The delays haven't stopped vendors who will help the food industry comply with the FSMA when it's fully enacted.
Features: Opening the Regulatory Floodgates Two Years After FSMA Passage
With the election behind, will the Obama Administration cut loose on new mandates and finish the job on implementation?
Features: Norman Ernest Borlaug Worked Tirelessly to Solve World Hunger Crisis
Nobel laureate and father of the green revolution was a food science innovator.
Features: OMB Confirms Food Safety as Key Priority in Obama Administration’s New Term
With Election 2012 in the rearview mirror, can everyone in the food supply chain—breeders and growers, processors and sellers, regulators and consumers—finally expect to see the long-awaited regulations needed to enforce the Food Safety Modernization Act?
Features: Sequencing the Watermelon Genome Reveals Flaw in Breeding
Today’s juicy, sweet, giant watermelons were bred at a cost: They lost much of their disease resistance. That’s one key insight revealed by an international consortium of more than 60 scientists who recently published the genomic sequence of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus).
Features: Congress Passes Food Safety Whistleblower Protections
New legislation designed to improve protections for whistleblowers employed by the federal government, including food safety inspectors, was passed by the U.S. Senate on November 13 and now awaits President Obama’s signature.
Features: FDA Releases Free Online Risk Assessment Tool
The FDA has at last released iRISK, a free, online risk assessment tool for chemical and biological hazards to food safety. Under development for nearly 10 years, in partnership with Risk Sciences International of Ottawa, Canada, the tool’s design is based on input from an expert panel of the Institute of Food Technologists.
Features: Congress Passes Food Safety Whistleblower Protections
New legislation designed to improve protections for whistleblowers employed by the federal government, including food safety inspectors, was passed by the U.S. Senate on November 13 and now awaits President Obama’s signature.
Features: Ballot Measure Mandating Labels for Genetically Modified Food Defeated in California
While most voters were following the presidential and U.S. Senate races on November 6, those interested in food safety were keeping a close eye on a ballot measure in California. Proposition 37, an initiative that would have mandated the labeling of most foods containing genetically modified ingredients, was soundly defeated, with 53% of initial votes rejecting the measure.
Features: Consumer Group Urges Full Implementation of FSMA
A consumer group that supported the passage of FSMA is calling on the Obama Administration to more broadly implement the act after finding that food safety remains a problem in the nation.
