Almost 40 percent of samples analyzed by the lab were mislabeled.

While FSMA sections on the Produce Safety Rule and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule have garnered the lion’s share of the news in the last few months, the Proposed Rule on Focused Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration is out for comment until the end of March. Though no large-scale events have occurred, a few small ones have affected small groups of people for various, unrelated reasons.

Investigators say veterinarians, butchers and meat industry workers were among those arrested.

The cuts mean fewer testing while reports of food fraud are up by two-thirds.

As a result of the recent UK horsemeat scandal, consumers and processors are very much aware they may not be getting what they paid for.

The courses are designed to prevent and mitigate intentional food contamination.