On October 31, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began requiring import certifications for shrimp and all spices from certain regions of Indonesia based on the risk of potential contamination with Cesium-137...more
11/4/2025
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At 12:01 am ET on October 1, 2025, funding expired for certain agencies within the federal government, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety Inspection...more
10/2/2025
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The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recently issued a press release directing the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take steps to explore possible rulemaking to...more
FDA recently issued two nutrition-related initiatives regarding dietary guidance statements and the use of salt substitutes in standardized foods. The first initiative, a draft guidance, contains agency recommendations on the...more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) recently issued a proposed rule to update its school nutrition standards. The rule proposes long-term standards, starting in the 2024-2025 school...more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has amended its organic regulations to strengthen oversight and enforcement of the National Organic Program (NOP). The final rule, which requires...more
The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently issued a final rule expanding the circumstances under which it will generically approve the labels of meat, poultry, and egg products. As a result of the expansion,...more
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a systematic review of the scientific literature on food safety culture. The review was conducted as part of FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint,...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently completed its first pre-market consultation for a human food made from cultured animal cells and issued a letter stating it had no further questions regarding the...more