Your soon-to-be 6-year-old wants you to bake elaborately decorated holiday cookies and cakes in the shapes of of the season. You’ve found a cake-decoration video online, but it uses ingredients that make you wonder
Continue Reading Non-toxic does not equal edible; be careful when decorating holiday treats
My name is Scott Loughan and I am a Compliance Officer in the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Regulatory Affairs. I work in Vermont and I am a senior case officer in my
Continue Reading FDA Frontlines: Meet Scott Loughan, compliance officer of the year
Editor’s note: The FDA’s Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine Stephen Ostroff combined efforts for this column.
We know how important it is to get produce safety right. Taking
Continue Reading FDA enforcement delay provides time to educate produce growers on safety
Editor’s note: This is part of series of articles and opinion columns we are publishing in recognition of September as Food Safety Education Month.
In an effort to enhance retail food safety, the U.S.
Continue Reading FDA releases video testimonials to enhance retail food safety education
Editor’s note: FDA’s Scott Gottlieb and Stephen Ostroff posted this joint blog under the title “FDA Update on Traceback Related to the E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce” from their vantage points as
Continue Reading Point: FDA says no immediate risk, no immediate answers
Stic HarrisStic Harris, DVM, MPH, has been the director of FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network (CORE) since August 2017. He is responsible for the agency’s surveillance, response, and post-response
Continue Reading CORE’s Stic Harris discusses food safety threats, FDA plans
As part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the Food and Drug Administration
Continue Reading FDA’s adulteration watchdogs talk about food terrorism
Editor’s note: This column by FDA’s Steven Musser and Eric L. Stevens was originally published on the agency’s blog.
To view the larger version of this graph on the FDA website,
Continue Reading WGS could be WMD in global battle against foodborne illness
Editor’s note: This column was originally published by the Food and Drug Administration as a Voice Blog.
We have made dramatic changes in our response to complex, potentially high-risk food safety situations that may be
Continue Reading SCORE one for the FDA: Strategic recall efforts paying off
Editor’s note: This interview was originally published by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) heralded a new era of enhanced collaboration between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and
Continue Reading FDA’s partnership with states to keep foods safe nationwide
