FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Sept. 28, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.

FDA is proposing new requirements for when the term “healthy” can be used as a claim on food labeling. The proposed rule, published in the Sept. 29 Federal Register, would modify current general criteria for using the term “healthy” by moving to a food-specific approach, and would set new recordkeeping requirements where compliance can’t be verified with information on the product label, FDA said.

On Sept. 27, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On Sept. 26, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

FDA on Sept. 27 released a new report outlining its activities related to ensuring the safety of imported produce. The overview includes information on FDA’s efforts toward ensuring produce offered for import meets U.S. food safety requirements; targeting and border surveillance to prevent entry of unsafe foods; responding to unsafe imported produce; and creating an effective and efficient food import program.

FDA on Sept. 26 released two strategy documents outlining the potential actions it may take to address the risks of salmonellosis and listeriosis in imported enoki and wood ear mushrooms, and of salmonellosis in imported bulb onions. The food safety prevention strategies are the first two released as a result of outbreak investigations conducted by FDA through its Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network alongside federal, state, territorial, tribal and international partners, the agency said.

On Sept. 23, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

On Sept. 22, FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

FDA has issued its Enforcement Report for Sept. 21, listing the status of recalls and field corrections for food, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, biologics and devices. The report covers both domestic and foreign firms.

FDA on Sept. 23 debarred a father and son from importing food for five years for falsely labeling giant squid they brought in from Peru as octopus, the agency said in a pair of notices published in that day’s Federal Register. FDA said Roy Tuccillo Sr. and Jr. -- respectively the owner, president, and COO, and the manager of Anchor Foods, Inc. and Advanced Frozen Foods, Inc. -- were convicted in 2020 of importing the giant squid between 2011 and 2014 and selling it in New Jersey, Texas and Massachusetts as octopus. The companies sold $1,128,388.50 worth of the giant squid. Neither Tuccillo responded to FDA when given notice of the proposed debarments.