Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by 23 members of Congress urges the agency to ban from food use red dye 3, a controversial synthetic colorant that is potentially harmful to human health. FDA to Hold Webinar on Food Allergen Labeling Requirements in December Food Safety Magazine Editorial Te...
when she presented her agency's proposed budget to a us senate subcommittee in early march, us food and drug administration (fda) commissioner margaret hamburg, md, described an ambitious food safety agenda. hundreds of new personnel, including 132 food inspectors who would conduct 1900 domestic ...
FDA Food Safety Modernization Act FDA食品安全现代化法案 Irene Chan Assistant Director, FDA China Office 詹怡和 FDA驻华办公室助理主任 Food Safety Modernization Act 食品安全现代化法案 ―I thank the President and members of Congress for recognizing that the burden that foodborne illness places on the ...
At another point in the hearing, Califf described the changes he has overseen at the FDA to address food safety, telling senators, "We have just completed the largest reorganization in FDA's history, in no small part, so that we could take on the issues of nutrition and chemicals in...
GAO. Food Safety: FDA Should Strengthen Its Oversight of Food Ingredients Determined to Be Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS). Washington, DC: Government Accountability Office; 2010. Available from: http://www.tinyurl.com/5r62bu7. [Last accessed on 2011 Feb 12].GAO (United States Government...
food safety system, focusing primarily on those laws and programs administered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The House has passed a comprehensive bill, H.R. 2749, and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ...
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration regulates drugs and medical devices. It also collects reports on adverse events from these products.
Deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine Michael R. Taylor added, "Rather than relying primarily on FDA investigators at the ports to detect and respond to food safety problems, importers would, for the first time, be held accountable for verifying, in a manner transparent to the FD...
House Energy and Commerce Committee on June 17, 2009 that would grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) more budget and power to police food safety in the nation. The bill was introduced in the wake of fatal outbreaks of foodborne illnesses. It is noted that the bill is ...
Food Information Council whether they would willingly buy meat milk and eggs that come from clones if the FDA declared them to be safe 63 percent of consumers said no. Yet scientific evidence suggests there is little cause for alarm at least on food-safety grounds.Studies have shown that meat...