Will Your Food Packaging Be Banned?
Potential risk around food packaging has become a greater focus for both regulators and consumers in recent months. Certainly, there is potential risk from packaging that comes in contact ...
The Traceability Rule is Final. Are You Prepared for Compliance?
It’s finally here – for better or worse. More than a decade after the publication of the Food Safety Modernization Act, the mandated Traceability Rule has finally been published. Overall, ...
CFIA Maintains Flexibility in Cattle Transport Compromise
Earlier this year, the new CFIA animal transport regulations went into effect, reducing the maximum cattle transport confinement interval without food, water and rest (FWR) from 48 hours to ...
The Consequences of Foreign Facility Inspection Refusals
Whether you are a foreign supplier of food to the U.S. or you import food or ingredients, there are a number of dos and don’ts to know – and ...
USDA Continues to Set its Sights on Salmonella
After announcing its intent to declare Salmonella an adulterant in breaded stuffed raw chicken products in August, USDA FSIS has now furthered its action against Salmonella in all poultry, ...
Do You Make “Healthy Foods”? If So, Changes Are on the Way.
Food manufacturers have long used the word Healthy on food labels with minimal regulatory requirements beyond the 1994 definition which focused primarily on sodium levels and the 2016 guidance ...
FDA Report Holds Implications for Entire Food Industry
Just as TAG had predicted, the issues that arose during the infant formula Cronobacter outbreak and supply shortage have continued to bear down on, not only infant formula segment, ...
Heavy Metals Continue to Have Heavy Focus in Foods
Reductions in allowances for heavy metals in foods, particularly foods for infants and young children, have been getting a great deal of media, consumer and regulatory attention over the ...
You Ask, TAG Answers: From Leafy Greens to Compressed Air
Answering client questions and helping find solutions earmark a typical day in the life of a TAG Team Expert. And when those questions are big-picture, industry focused, they can ...
FDA’s Expanded RRAs Make Every Facility More Susceptible to “Assessment”
During the pandemic, FDA adapted its operations to allow for the use of remote regulatory assessments (RRAs) to assess establishments and their regulatory compliance. The more than 1,470 domestic ...
