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Coalition petitions FDA to ban 8 flavorings
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Coalition petitions FDA to ban 8 flavorings

Health groups filed a petition last week calling on FDA to issue a ban for eight synthetic flavorings known to be carcinogenic.
Jeremy Gerrard
Jeremy Gerrard
June 15, 2015

 The group urges FDA to revoke its 1964 approval allowing seven flavorings to be used in food and overturn the industry’s 1974 self-approval of the eighth synthetic flavor. 


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Integrated Food Safety System
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Collaboration, integration key to food safety goals

June 8, 2015
Food Safety Summit (FSS) 2015 attendees found collaboration and integration to be the watchwords for FDA’s strengthening of relationships among government organizations (federal, state and local) and other stakeholders in food safety.
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Listeria Graph
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Listeria hides in processing machinery

May 30, 2015
Recent information released by Blue Bell Creameries relating to the cause of the Listeria contamination in some of its ice cream products has a familiar ring to it—improperly maintained equipment contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.


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Food companies respond to consumer groups advocating removal of HFCS
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Mars supports added sugar limit

The proposals recommend consumers limit their daily intake of added sugars to less than 10 percent of their calories.
Jeremy Gerrard
Jeremy Gerrard
May 13, 2015
The company also supports the US government’s proposal to include an “added sugars” declaration in the nutrition facts panel on all food packaging.
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Advocacy group calls on Coca-Cola and Pepsi to label genetically modified ingredients
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GMA appeals Vermont ruling on labeling law

The association is appealing the ruling that denied its motion to stop the mandatory labeling of genetically modified food from going into effect.
Jeremy Gerrard
Jeremy Gerrard
May 13, 2015
A US district court judge denied GMA’s preliminary injunction because the plaintiffs failed to show the law would cause them irreparable harm.
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