By: Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. This week, my colleagues and I traveled to California to learn more, first-hand, about the presence of arsenic in rice. This grain, like other foods, contains traces of arsenic, a chemical element found in water, … Continue reading →
By: Julie Callahan FDA works on many fronts when it comes to making sure our food supply is safe—not just the foods we grow and process here in the United States, but also those that are shipped here from overseas. … Continue reading →
By: Jodi Daniel, Bakul Patel and Matthew Quinn Yesterday, the Health IT Policy Committee (HITPC) accepted and approved recommendations from the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) working group for a risk-based regulatory framework for health information technology. … Continue reading →