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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

 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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Collaboration, integration key to food safety goals

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 hides in processing machinery

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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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
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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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
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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