The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) last week detailed several options for improving nutrition labeling on packaged foods and beverages, including specific recommendations for single serve packages. "During the past decade, the Nutrition Facts Panel has become an easily recognized source of information among consumers.

Americans take food safety very seriously. Still, many consumers tend to ignore Mother Nature's contaminants while they worry unduly about high technology, such as the advanced technologies that farmers, plant breeders, and food processors use to make our food supply the most affordable, nutritious, varied, and safe in history.

Can we, as consumers, ever be sure that the food we eat is 100% safe? If we want assurances that our food supply is safe, where do we begin?
ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management Systems

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed regulations that would (1) require persons who handle food products to establish and maintain records; and (2) allow the Agency to detain food products if it believes the food presents a threat of serious adverse health consequences or death to humans or animals.

To shore up food supply security and protect against terrorist threats, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on December 6 issued final rules for the establishment and maintenance of records relating to food.

The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the USDA (USDA), have signed an agreement to support the development of sustainable agriculture in developing countries.