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Is Your Food Safe to Eat?

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), one in six people suffer a food-borne illness in the United States each year. Sweeping new rules proposed by the FDA in January are intended to reduce the amount of...more

FDA Seeks Importer and Exporter Input on Food Safety Law Changes

U.S. food importers and foreign companies exporting food to the U.S. will soon be subject to important new requirements under the recently-enacted Food Safety Modernization Act, which the Food and Drug Administration has...more

New Food Safety Law Facing Funding Hurdles

Now that President Obama has signed historic food-safety legislation into law, the coalition of food industry, public interest and consumer groups that supported the new law must convince the new Congress – including the...more

President Obama Signs New Expansive Food Safety Law

In the flurry of legislation passed by the 111th Congress in its final days, the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) cleared the Senate by unanimous voice vote on December 20, passed the House 215-144 the following day,...more