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The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service will expand Listeria testing at ready-to-eat establishments nationwide, adding routine sampling of food-contact and non-food-contact surfaces beginning in January 2027. https://buff.ly/no4uwpS

Sara Morris, senior food safety and traceability scientist at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Global Food Traceability Center, will present "Traceability and Nature-Positive Supply Chains" at Climate Week NYC on Tuesday, Sept. 22. https://buff.ly/pd4DLLE

The FDA's latest Food Code, released earlier this week, addresses a range of food safety topics: sanitizer temperatures, consumer advisories, revised food establishment definition, new mobile food establishment definition, allergen cross-contact clarification, food donations, specialty mushroom hazards, dehydration and freeze-drying guidance, waste receptacle requirements, vending machine controls and updates to the food establishment inspection report form.

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A federal judge has temporarily halted much of the USDA's planned reorganization as a coalition of federal employee unions, nonprofit organizations and local governments challenges the agency’s restructuring in court. https://buff.ly/zD5GpZx

Global Glove Safety Day on Sept. 18 should be about much more than gloves, writes Dr. Darin Detwiler. The glove is something we can see, but what it represents is much larger: thousands of decisions made throughout the food system every day that collectively determine whether prevention succeeds or fails. https://buff.ly/q6ebewU

The USDA's new Stand-Up Program will provide up to $50 million in new funding to help states start or expand their own meat inspection programs in partnership with the Food Safety and Inspection Service. https://buff.ly/BjPARVw

The FDA released a report on the occurrence of foodborne illness risk factors in retail delis and found the two most commonly occurring risk factors: improper holding time and temperature, and poor personal hygiene. https://buff.ly/9yEzgZ5

🎥 At IAFP 2026 in New Orleans, QA contributing editor Darin Detwiler spoke with Darin Zehr, general manager at Commercial Food Sanitation, on the company's new headquarters, the impact of stories and why training is so important for the future of food safety. https://buff.ly/j0PkVpK

Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay nearly $385 million to resolve allegations that it failed to manufacture certain powdered infant formula and nutritional therapy products in compliance with federal and state requirements, resulting in false claims being submitted to government programs. https://buff.ly/P7hGWaG

🎥WATCH: At IAFP 2026 in New Orleans, QA contributing editor Darin Detwiler spoke with John Butts, founder of Food Safety By Design, about how food safety has evolved over his more than five-decade career, the strategies that have shaped the industry and what’s next for food safety culture. https://buff.ly/kWM0vTQ