Professional judgment is the secret sauce in food safety, built through extensive experience and refined observation. Combined with rigorous compliance standards, this instinctive understanding creates a powerful foundation for protecting public health and maintaining operational excellence.
The guidance is intended to set achievable action levels that will help further reduce lead in the food supply.
The news comes on the heels of a report that the patient had carried mutations that might help the virus infect people more easily.
One of the changes found was also identified in a specimen collected from the human case with severe illness detected in British Columbia, Canada, suggesting they emerged during the clinical course as the virus replicated in the patient.
The interim final rule updates the conditions for poultry facilities to receive indemnity and compensation after testing positive for HPAI
The individual was exposed to infected poultry while working with a commercial flock in northwest Iowa
A house cat in Washington County, Oregon contracted H5N1 and died after consuming the raw frozen pet food which lead to the voluntary recall
Food Defense is a new approach to protecting the food supply chain, and it uses advanced data analytics to better understand and respond to threats. It allows food producers to better understand risks, take the most effective steps to mitigate them, and enable operational and financial efficiencies within their businesses.
To help consumers build nutritious diets, the FDA updated the nutritional requirements a food must meet to use the claim “healthy” on the package.
“This proclamation is a targeted action to ensure government agencies have the resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to this outbreak. Building on California’s testing and monitoring system — the largest in the nation — we are committed to further protecting public health, supporting our agriculture industry, and ensuring that Californians have access to accurate, up-to-date information.” – Governor Gavin Newsom
