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Announcement: NEW TEXTBOOK — Food Fraud Prevention, A Textbook to Support Introduction, Implementation and Management

Announcing the first textbook on Food Fraud Prevention, based on ten years of research, outreach, and teaching effort. Ten years after the 2009 journal article “Introduction to the Public Health Threat of Food Fraud,” the discipline has grown from “what is it?” and “is it really a problem?” through to “how to start?” and “how […]

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FDA Public Meeting in Support of a “New Era of Smarter Food Safety”

Monday, October 21, comments were collected at the FDA public meeting in support of a “New Era of Smarter Food Safety.” AFDO Vice President Mark Sestak from Alabama Department of Health, Secretary/Treasurer Natalie Adan from Georgia Department of Agriculture, Past President Steve Moris from the Kansas Department of Agriculture, and Executive Director Steven Mandernach represented AFDO at […]

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FDA “New Era of Smarter Food Safety” – Comments from Steve Mandernach, AFDO Executive Director

Comments delivered bySteven MandernachAFDO Executive DirectorFDA “New Era of Smarter Food Safety”10/21/19 Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this meeting on behalf of the Association of Food and Drug Officials or AFDO.  AFDO represents federal, state, and local food regulatory programs across the United States. We are excited to be embarking as partners […]

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Horizontal Approaches to Food Standards of Identity Modernization Discussed at FDA Public Meeting

FDA held a public meeting Friday 9/27/19 in Rockville, MD to give interested persons an opportunity to discuss FDA’s effort to modernize food standards of identity (SOI) and provide information about changes that could be made to existing SOI, particularly changes that could be made across categories of standardized foods (i.e., horizontal changes), to provide […]

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New Report Details a 2017 E. coli Outbreak Linked to Soy Nut Butter

A new report published in Pediatrics describes a 2017 outbreak investigation of E. coli O157:H7 infections that sickened 32 people, primarily young children, in 12 states. Investigators identified soy nut butter as the source of the outbreak, which led to a recall of more than 1.2 million pounds of products. Quick work by public health led to […]

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New Report on Foodborne Disease Outbreaks

In 2017, 841 foodborne disease outbreaks were reported to CDC, according to a recently released annual summary from the Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System. The data come from reports submitted by state, local, and territorial public health agencies to the National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS), a platform for reporting enteric (gut) disease outbreaks due to food, water, […]

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