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The Food and Drug Administration is announcing a Request
for Application Number and its intention to receive
and consider a new sole source application for the award of a
cooperative agreement in fiscal year 2008 to establish and
support the Western Center for Food Safety.

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FDA Questions and Answers on the Salmonellosis Outbreak in Certain Types of Tomatoes, May-June, 2008

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The Protein Surveillance Assignment (PSA) is the latest food defense related FDA field activity. The PSA was designed as a proactive effort to review protein sources being imported and in response to the investigations of the pet deaths in the United States (U.S.) that were associated with the consumption of pet food contaminated with melamine, cyanuric acid, ammelide, and ammeline.

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Information for State Regulatory Agencies regarding the outbreak of
Salmonellosis Outbreak in Certain Types of Tomatoes, May-June, 2008.

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The Food and Drug Administration is expanding its warning to consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak has been linked to consumption of certain raw red plum, red Roma, and red round tomatoes, and products containing these raw, red tomatoes.

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This document is a listing of the currently active intramural research projects being conducted by CFSAN researchers. The projects are grouped by the CFSAN Program Priorities (Cosmetic Safety, Dietary Supplement Safety, Improving Nutrition, Food Safety and Food Defense) and are listed in order by project number.

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Frank M. Torti, M.D., M.P.H., the FDA’s principal deputy commissioner and chief scientist, this week asked Science Board Chairwoman Barbara J. McNeil, M.D., Ph.D., head of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, to establish a subcommittee to assess BPA, a substance used in some plastic baby bottles, food containers, and water bottles.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today filed a complaint for permanent injunction against seafood processor Captain’s Select Seafood, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., and two of its top officers for violating the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

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FDA is alerting consumers in New Mexico and Texas that a salmonellosis outbreak appears to be linked to consumption of certain types of raw red tomatoes and products containing raw red tomatoes.

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The Food and Drug Administration is alerting consumers in New Mexico and Texas that a
salmonellosis outbreak appears to be linked to consumption of certain types of raw red
tomatoes and products containing raw red tomatoes.

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