by ngp2021 | Oct 5, 2020 | Latest News, Regulatory Updates
As we reported in August, the new Undersecretary of Food Safety, Dr Mindy Brashears, was to host a meeting about the state of the food industry as pertains to Salmonella on September 22, 2020. As a stakeholder organization, Next Gen PFMA made a public statement as...
by ngp2021 | Aug 24, 2020 | Latest News, Regulatory Updates
Just in the last month, there have been 4 salmonella recalls in the US in human food: red onions, shrimp, cheese dip, and peaches. In the onion and peach recalls, humans are sick and hospitalized. The timing for a joint effort to reduce Salmonella in the food supply...
by ngp2021 | Feb 3, 2020 | FSMA, Latest News, Our Stories
Under the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, as well as the Food Safety Modernization Act, regulators, namely the FDA, USDA and state Departments of Agriculture, all have authority to sample foods for presence of “problems.“ Those problems can be anything from bacteria...
by ngp2021 | Dec 27, 2019 | FSMA, Latest News, Regulatory Updates
Anyone like romaine lettuce? Caesar salad perhaps? Personally, I eat a lot of romaine lettuce and Caesar salad. I’m one of the sensitive people that if the lettuce isn’t washed about 8 times I’ll get an intestinal “thing” after eating some of the lettuce....
by Cathy Alinovi | Dec 28, 2018 | AAFCO, FSMA, Latest News, Our Stories
In the last post, I let you know that I was going to the FDA on behalf of raw pet food manufacturers to discuss how we (NGPFMA and the FDA) can work together. While we all hoped for the best, which would be complete change in the FDA’s policy, reality said that was a...
