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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, November 09, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration is encouraging consumer vigilance to limit the impact of a Salmonella outbreak tied to cantaloupe consumption across more than 30 states and Canada.
Getting into the field and hearing from stakeholders directly will be an important part of how Jim Jones, the Food and Drug Administration's deputy commissioner of human foods, plans to lead the new Human Foods Program at FDA.
Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees have reached agreement on a one-year farm bill extension, but its fate hinges on whether Congress can agree on a stopgap spending bill this year.
Church Brothers Farms has added Martin Sotelo as the new senior director of raw product procurement for the U.S. and Mexico and Mike Reed has been promoted to senior vice president and chief financial officer of Stater Bros.
Lawmakers look to finish work on some fiscal 2024 appropriations bills important to agriculture this week, as newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional leaders face a looming deadline for keeping the government open amid deep partisan divides over spending.
Jim Jones, the FDA's newly designated deputy commissioner of human foods, sees partnering with food industry stakeholders as crucial to accomplishing the food safety goals of the agency.
The U.S. needs a national food strategy that incorporates oversight authorities from the Food and Drug Administration and USDA to better protect the domestic food supply, a former FDA official said Friday.
The House is set to debate the annual funding bill for USDA and FDA this week, even as a partial shutdown looms at the end of this week unless House Republicans and Democratic-controlled Senate can agree on a stopgap spending bill.
