• Laws & Regulations
• Topics include Health & Safety, Biotechnology, and Organic.
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service
"Responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged."
• Policy: Acts, Regulations, Guidelines, Directives, Notices, etc
• Compliance Guidance (Food Defense Planning, Food Safety Assessments, HACCP, Labeling, etc)
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
Including Grades & Standards, Marketing Orders, and Organic Certification
• Rules & Regulations
• Grades & Standards
• National Organic Program
USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service
"...protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, regulating genetically engineered organisms, administering the Animal Welfare Act and carrying out wildlife damage management activities."
FDA is in the US Department of Health & Human Services
• Regulatory Information Including laws enforced by FDA
• Food
• Guidance & Regulation Food Safety Modernization Act, HACCP, CGMPs, etc
• Recalls of Food & Dietary Supplements
• Outbreaks of Foodborne Illness
FoodSafety.gov: gateway to federal food safety information
• Recalls & Outbreaks
Food & Nutrition Information Center National Agricultural Library
Gateway to selected information resources on food.
• Laws & Regulations
• Regulation of Pesticide Residues on Food
California Department of Food & Agriculture
• Animal Health & Food Safety Services
Meat, Poultry, & Eggs; Milk & Dairy safety
California Department of Public Health
• Food Safety Program
Cal/EPA Department of Pesticide Regulation
• Food Safety Information
Codex Alimentarius
FAO/WHO Food Standards
EFSA: European Food Safety Authority