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.
New investigation is the first to trace microplastics and plastic chemicals from plastic packaging into baby food. The testing commissioned by Greenpeace International in 2025 found plastic particles in the baby food products of two global consumer goods companies – Danone and Nestlé. The study suggests a link between the type of plastic the pouches are lined with – polyethylene – and some of the microplastics found.
As the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Food, Dr. Prater leads the agency’s Human Foods Program, overseeing all FDA nutrition and food safety activities
At the core of One Health Diagnostics® is a shift from testing alone to connected diagnostics ecosystems, delivering actionable insights that drive smarter, faster and more sustainable decision-making.
Fly control is a critical food safety requirement for food processing facilities. As temperatures rise, fly breeding cycles accelerate, increasing the risk of pathogen transfer (including Salmonella and E. coli), audit findings and FSMA or GFSI nonconformities
Fifteen years of preventive controls investment has produced something many organizations are positioned to use more fully: a record of operational performance detailed enough to begin reading these costs as a pattern with a common origin rather than as isolated inefficiencies belonging to separate departments. That reorientation is available, and the infrastructure for it already exists. This five-part series examines food safety through the business realities that leaders already navigate: profitability, risk, growth, brand trust, and organizational function. Not to reframe food safety as a business problem, but to make visible what the industry has earned the right to see clearly.
How a chance meeting lead to the sharing of an emotional and powerful food safety story. Was this random hotel elevator connection fate or divine intervention? I don’t know. What I do know is because Dana was willing to talk to a stranger, she was able to share her daughter, Kayla’s food safety story to an audience of food safety professionals and now to you.
Fifteen years after FSMA reoriented food safety around prevention, the technical infrastructure is largely in place. What is becoming visible at this maturity point is the layer beneath it — the business decisions, governance structures, and organizational design that determine whether that infrastructure actually holds under real operational conditions. This five-part series examines food safety through the business realities that leaders already navigate: profitability, risk, growth, brand trust, and organizational function.
Starfish Network recently conducted an analysis of the benefits of traceability solutions. This study surveyed professionals across various food-related sub-industries, including produce, meat, seafood, dairy, eggs, packaged & manufactured goods. The surveyed companies spanned across production, logistics, retail, and services functions across the industry value chain.
For small and mid sized food manufacturers, the real food safety challenge is often not the absence of programs. It is the difficulty of executing them consistently with limited people, limited time, and limited system support. AI does not replace food safety culture, trained employees, or management accountability. What it can do is reduce documentation drag, connect fragmented records, and give small plants better visibility into the daily factors that affect both compliance and performance.
