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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) both have dedicated pages on their websites where they frequently publish new recall notices ...
Put those chips down: FDA issues recalls on at least 10 food items in August. See which. Gannett. Marley Malenfant , Austin American-Statesman. August 28, 2024 at 1:20 PM. Sometimes food and ...
A food recall occurs when a food producer takes a product off the market because there is reason to believe it may cause consumers to become ill. ... government agencies may request or require a ...
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 4, 2011. The FSMA has given the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested and processed. The law grants the FDA a number of new powers, including mandatory recall authority, which the agency had ...
2003. A hepatitis A outbreak was one of the most widespread hepatitis A outbreak in the United States, afflicting at least 640 people, killing four people in north-eastern Ohio and south-western Pennsylvania in late 2003. The outbreak was blamed on tainted green onions at a Chi-Chi's restaurant in Monaca, Pennsylvania.
Class I recalls are for dangerous or defective products that predictably could cause serious health problems or death. Examples of products that could fall into this category are a food found to contain botulinal toxin, food with undeclared allergens, a label mix-up on a life saving drug, or a defective artificial heart valve.
Bacterial Contamination. This category includes harmful pathogens, such as salmonella, E. coli, and listeria, and accounts for more than 21 percent of food recalls since 2020. These pathogens ...
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), is the public health regulatory agency responsible for ensuring that United States ' commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged. The FSIS draws its authority from the ...