The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its website Calories on the Menu – Information for Consumers to coincide with National Nutrition Month.® Educational materials focus on areas where there are gaps in consumer understanding and use…
On March 15, 2019, U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a rule to finalize the new compliance dates for the agricultural water requirements in the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Produce Safety Rule. Larger…
The Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE) developed a Safe Recipe Style Guide that provides recipe text to address the four major areas of most food safety violations in home kitchens: temperature, handwashing, cross contamination and…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a public meeting on April 17, 2019 to discuss the draft guidance for compliance and implementation of the “Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration” rule…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN) has updated its Education Resource Library to include the 2017 FDA Food Code in the online catalog from which you may…
Henry Avocado Corporation is voluntarily recalling California-grown whole avocados sold in bulk at retail stores because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Henry Avocado is issuing this voluntary recall out of an…
The Tennessee Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) receives funding to assist state and local health departments on a one-on-one basis. The CoE can offer the following consultation services: enteric disease interviews interview tracking databases…
Most reported foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. A recent MMWR said that from 2014 to 2016, 16 state and local public health departments reported 404 of these kinds of outbreaks to…
The following guidance is from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Among those affected by flooding in the Central and Southern Plains of the U.S. are farmers and their fields of crops grown or…
The goal of the CDC’s Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases (ELC) program is to reduce illness and related deaths caused by a wide range of infectious disease threats.…