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Food Standards Scotland reboots food safety campaign for consumers

# Food Safety

# reboots

# Food Standards Scotland

Four in 10 people who’ve had food poisoning believe they got it from eating and preparing food at home, according to a survey in Scotland.

2019-01-18 · foodsafetynews

Notice of the Food Evaluation Center of the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration on Accelerating Feedback of Relevant Information on On-site Verification of Health Food Registration

# Food Safety

# Health Food

# Registration Info

# Verification Process

# Government Notice

# Regulatory Update

On March 17, 2026, the Food Evaluation Center of the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration issued a notice to speed up the on-site verification of relevant information on health food registration, products include extract source brand Ganoderma lucidum fruiting body concentrated capsule, Han Fang Shen Cao oral liquid, fresh Dendrobium officinale American ginseng astragalus granule, fresh Dendrobium officinale maca powder American ginseng poria cocos extract, donkey-hide gelatin block, auxiliary hypoglycemic granules, probiotic decoction brand American ginseng spore powder capsule, Dendrobium wolfberry granules, such as Xinhua Mao brand powder, Rong brand propolis soft capsule, etc.

2026-03-23 ·

FDA refuses to reconsider decision on hazardous chemical in food packaging

# FDA

# food packaging

# doubled-down

Today, the FDA doubled-down on its flawed 2005 and 2017 decisions to allow the hazardous chemical perchlorate to be added to dry food packaging.

2019-04-24 · foodsafetynews

USDA Offers Food Safety Tips for the Fourth of July

# USDA

# Food poisoning

# Food Safety Tips

The USDA is offering food safety tips for summer and the Fourth of July. Food poisoning increases in the summer months for several reasons.

2018-07-04 · foodmate

Perdue Foods recalls 34 tons of chicken nuggets after consumers find wood

# chicken nuggets

# Perdue Foods

# wood

Perdue Foods, LLC in Perry, GA, late Thursday recalled about 68,200 pounds of organic ready-to-eat chicken nugget products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically wood, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety

2019-01-18 · foodsafetynews

Resources for Food Producers in Flooded Areas Due to Tropical Storm Barry

# Food Safety

# FDA

# Gulf Coast

As Tropical Storm Barry impacts the Gulf Coast, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has resources to help growers who may be affected by the impacts to their crops from severe weather conditions.

2019-07-13 · fda

"Health food raw materials probiotics" national standards for public comments

# Health Food

# Probiotics

# Raw Materials

# Public Comments

# National Standards

# Food Safety

On April 1, the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration issued a notice to solicit public opinions on the recommended national standard of "Probiotics for Health Food Raw Materials. Feedback is as of May 29. The draft starts with clarifying the definition of probiotics and probiotics, setting up quality indicators and standard labels, and constructs a complete standard system for probiotics for health food raw materials. The formulation of this standard fills the gap in the quality standard of probiotics for health food raw materials in my country, and will complement and advance the existing standards such as "Food Processing Bacteria Preparation.

2026-04-07 ·

Weekly Review of Food Standards and Regulations(1120-1124)

# food additives

# foods infant formula

National Health and Family Planning Commission issued “Announcement about the new condiment for food 2-Acetoxy-3-butanone and expanding usable range of 4 food additives including β-cyclodextrin”.

2018-07-06 · foodmate

National food safety standard General rules of migration test for food contact materials

# food contact materials

On January 3rd, 2018, Letter of China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment solicited opinions on revision of GB 31604.1-2015 “National food safety standard General rules of migration test for food contact materials and its products”

2018-07-06 · foodmate

Seafood and food processing facility found with violations

# seafood

# facility

The seafood processing and food manufacturing facility in Honolulu owned by Modern Macaroni Co. Ltd was inspected Dec. 6-13, 2016. Serious violations were found, which the FDA says renders the fish or fishery products from the facility to be adulterated.

2017-03-06 · foodsafetynews