FDA vows top priority for food-safety items

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Food additives that would reduce food-borne illness will go to the priority track for the FDA's application process. Illnesses from E. coli, salmonella, cyclospora and other toxins cause an estimated 9,000 deaths each year in the U.S. alone. The FDA says the actual approval process will remain the same, no short-cuts, but the need for more such products is needed without the delay of waiting for non-safety products being reviewed first.

Product quality, Food Additives, All Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing, Services information, Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities, Food Safety & Quality Service, Research, Investigations, Food contamination, United States. Food and Drug Administration

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USDA to allow meatpackers, processors to sterilize products with radiation

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The FDA gave its approval to irradiate meat in December of 1997, and the AMA says it approves, now the USDA will give its formal stamp of approval, also. Fruit and poultry have been cleared for the process for years. The large wholesalers of ground meat would find it the most beneficial since contaminants seem to do better in ground meat, but consumers who object to the potential risk have yet to be heard from.

Meat Products, Meats and meat products, Meat Wholesale, Meat and Meat Product Wholesalers, Meat industry, Social policy, United States. Department of Agriculture, Irradiation, Meat packers, Irradiation (Radiation exposure)

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