food-safety
Every record this desk has filed under food-safety, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
FDA draft guidance would set cadmium action levels for processed baby foods
FDA has opened comments on draft cadmium action levels for certain processed foods intended for children under two. The recommendations range from 10 parts per billion for most fruit, vegetable and mixed foods to 45 parts per billion for dry infant cereals. They are not final or binding. Comments are due December 22 for consideration before FDA starts the final guidance.
Also filed underfdababy-foodcadmiumdraft-guidancepublic-comments
FDA proposes broader food-traceability relief for restaurants and retailers above its existing small-business exemption
FDA released draft guidance stating that it does not intend to enforce its food-traceability requirements for another band of small restaurants and retailers. The thresholds use three-year average food sales or provision, adjusted for inflation from 2020. Comments on the draft are due November 23 for consideration before final guidance. A separate November 6 meeting will examine tracking problems and possible flexibility.
Also filed underfood-traceabilityrestaurantssmall-businesspublic-commentfederal-register
Check the freezer too: Graziers raw-milk cheese recall covers all listed lots
FDA posted Sierra Nevada Cheese Company's notice September 29. It covers four raw-milk varieties because investigators have not isolated a lot or production date. The recall itself began September 24; the outbreak figures below are FDA's September 25 update.
Also filed underhealthrecallsconsumer-protection
Missing proof is a finding. It isn't a verdict.
GAO could not verify safeguards around sensitive systems. A cheese recall could not isolate the affected production lot. Both gaps deserve action. Neither gives us permission to invent the missing facts.
Also filed underaccountabilitygovernmentevidence
A North Carolina company is recalling approximately 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat that were produced without federal inspection but went out nationwide under a false USDA mark, 'EST. 1363', and the recall notice itself warns that the number may not be on the package a shopper took home.
On September 22, 2026, the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that Star Meat Delivery Inc. of Lucama, N.C. is recalling approximately 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products that were produced without the benefit of federal inspection and carried labels with a false USDA mark of inspection. The establishment number inside that mark, 'EST. 1363', has no federal grant of inspection. The meat was distributed in bulk under the A&D Foods label and shipped to A&D Foods, a Georgia distributor, for retail and restaurant locations nationwide. FSIS rates the recall Class I, the most serious of its three classes, and says product bearing EST. 1363 should be considered misbranded and unsafe to eat, and thrown away or returned. The catch is in the notice: stores may have put their own stickers on the meat, so the number may not appear on a consumer package. The 23 listed products include goat cuts, oxtail, short ribs, pork feet, chorizo and menudo mix, produced on unstated dates before September 22. No illnesses have been confirmed. No retail distribution list had been posted by September 27.
Also filed underfsisusdameat-recallmisbrandingconsumer-protection
Four things to check at home this week: two sunscreen ingredients FDA just ruled out, a 2.3-million-bottle candy recall, fire-spray canisters that can rupture, and a cheese with undeclared egg.
On September 11 the FDA published a final order removing PABA and trolamine salicylate as sunscreen active ingredients, finding that a sunscreen containing either is not generally recognized as safe and effective. The day before, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced two recalls a household can check in seconds: about 2.3 million Ricky Joy Sour Crush rolling liquid candy bottles, whose rolling ball can detach and choke a child, and about 31,000 Hero Fire Spray canisters, which can deteriorate and rupture — the firm has nine reports of canisters exploding or deteriorating in storage. And Whole Foods Market is recalling Cabricharme cheese sold at 18 stores because it contains an egg protein not declared on the label. What each notice asks you to look for, and what none of them says.
Also filed underfdacpscrecallsconsumer-safetysunscreenallergens
Two recalls this week come down to a number you can check at home: one UPC on a bag of broccoli sprouts, and six lot codes on wellness vials.
A Salmonella outbreak linked to sprouts has made 22 people sick in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Washington, two of them hospitalized, and Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC is recalling 215 cases of broccoli sprouts carrying UPC 8 38796 00105 1 and five Use By dates from 9/07/26 to 9/16/26. Separately, Houston's Centric Compounding is recalling six lots of injectable Glutathione, Myer’s Cocktail and Tri-Immune Boost vials — shipped nationwide, including straight to patients' homes — after finding they were compounded with a Glutathione ingredient containing elevated endotoxin levels; the company has received nine reports of reactions. Both notices are company announcements posted by the FDA, and both ask for the same thing: match the code, and throw it out.
Also filed underfdarecallssalmonellacompoundingpublic-health
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