Food companies and industry trade associations have overwhelmingly supported a decision by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to move the U.S. Codex Office from the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to the Office of the Undersecretary…
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By Brett Schwemer, as published in The National Provisioner
To appeal or not to appeal; that is the question
Establishments regulated by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) frequently face the dilemma on whether to appeal agency decisions…
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Tags: Agriculture, Appeal, Brett T. Schwemer, Enforcement Action, Establishment, Food, Food Safety, Food Safety Inspection Service, FSIS, Inspection, Meat, NOIE, Noncompliance, Noncompliance Record, Poultry, Waiver
Egg cartons in the United States are not required by federal regulations to bear labels which identify the living conditions of the hens. Two animal rights non-profit organizations and six individuals sought to change that by filing petitions with…
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Tags: AMS, Cage-Free, Egg, Egg Carton, Egg Products Inspection Act, Food, Free-Range, FSIS, FTC, Hen, Label, Ninth Circuit, Rulemaking, Salmonella, Shell Egg, Stewart D. Fried
Happy 2017, everyone! 2016 has come and gone. Looking at 2016 in my rear-view mirror, here are a few matters that caught my personal attention.
As food and drug lawyers and corporate execs in regulated companies know (or definitely should know!),…
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Tags: 2016, 21st Century Cures Act, Agriculture, Animal Drug, Arthur Y. Tsien, Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, Congress, Drug, Election Day, Feed, Feinstein Institute, Food, Food Drug and Cosmetic Act, FSIS, Genetically Engineered, Guidance, HIPAA, Law Firm, Lawyer, Mecadox, Medical Privacy, Misbranded Drug, Nutrition Facts, OFW Law, Park Doctrine, Rulemaking, Salmon, Sodium
On behalf of the Agriculture practice group at OFW Law, following is a copy of our Summer 2016 newsletter. We hope you find it useful. To receive this periodic newsletter by e-mail, please contact Carrie Morgan.
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On behalf of the Agriculture practice group at OFW Law, following is a copy of our Winter 2016 newsletter. We hope you find it useful. To receive this periodic newsletter by e-mail, please contact Carrie Morgan.
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Tags: Agriculture, Barbara J. Masters, Beef, Brett T. Schwemer, COOL, Country of Origin, Dennis R. Johnson, Food, Food Safety, FSIS, FSMA, HACCP, Hazard Analysis, Jolyda O. Swaim, Labeling, Law Firm, Lawyer, OFW Law, Pork, Preventive Controls, Regulatory Round-Up
By OFW Law and HACCP Consulting Group
Under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the decision that registered facilities would be required to implement food safety plans based on preventive controls…
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Dr. Doom and Ms. Gloom have been addressing the fact that both FSIS and FDA are paying more attention to Listeria control in ready-to-eat facilities. In previous blogs, they have discussed facility maintenance and repair as well as employee practic…
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Last year, Dr. Doom and Ms. Gloom offered tips for facility maintenance and repair to assist facilities in being prepared for the selection of targeted sampling by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and/or Food and Drug Administra…
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Tags: Barbara J. Masters, Contamination, Doom and Gloom, Employee Practices, Equipment, Flow, Food, Food Safety, Food Safety Training, FSIS, GMP, Jolyda O. Swaim, Listeria, Personnel, Ready-To-Eat, Traffic
All ready-to-eat processors, whether regulated by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will have the environment, food contact surfaces, and products sampled for Listeria monocytogenes. While many…
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