FDA posted the company’s announcement on their website. The company said during a routine review, a small sliver of aluminum was discovered in the baking pan used to prepare six of its products.
The FDA is implementing a major reorganization plan called “Simple Reform” on October 1, 2026, which shifts field inspectors from specialized product roles back to generalist investigators and centralizes administrative functions. The food and beverage industry should expect a shift in audit dynamics, meaning audits will likely focus less on highly specific, niche technical processes and more on foundational, broad-spectrum quality systems. Dr. Stephen Ostroff and Frank Yiannas, both former Deputy Commissioners at FDA offer their opinions on Simple Reform.
The sample of lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico produced a false postive test result.
FDA sent a letter to the infant formula industry and their supply chain partners highlighting multiple recent public health events where risks were introduced through the supply chain and to call for increased vigilance by industry to ensure the safety of ingredients and finished infant formula products.
While the department’s food safety leadership likes to repeatedly emphasize that they use a science-based and data-driven approach to policy making, consumer advocates worry that these statements are meaningless if they don’t translate into policy initiatives that aim to prevent foodborne illness.
FDA announced a list of guidance topics includes possible new topics for guidance documents or revisions to existing guidance documents that the FDA’s Human Foods Program is considering, including Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements, and Innovation and Microbiological Food Safety.
On the same day the SCOTUS sided with the Trump administration and the maker of the weedkiller Roundup, Trump issued an executive order aimed at reducing pesticides in the food supply and studying the health risks they pose but with no new federal funding, and it does not call for new regulations or legislation.
The updated compliance program will focus exclusively on monitoring pesticide residues in foods. To reflect this, the program has been renamed “Pesticides in Human Foods – Domestic and Import.”
The discussion paper includes information and questions to help inform FDA’s engagements with stakeholders, including the upcoming virtual FDA-led public meeting on June 15th.
As the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Food, Dr. Prater leads the agency’s Human Foods Program, overseeing all FDA nutrition and food safety activities
