FBIA Letter to New York on State Recall Manual
ASTA signed onto an FBIA coalition letter to the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) in July 2021 regarding concerns related to recent developments in the state of New York pertaining to its food recall policies, in which the state's newly updated recall manual includes proposed threshold limits for certain contaminants, including heavy metals and allergens.
07/12/2021 at 5:15 am
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Related Resources
2020 Technical Presentation: Exposure-based Screening Tool for Contaminants in Spices
This presentation was provided at the 2020 Annual Online The presenter, Exponent Inc, presented a webinar on an exposure-based screening tool for contaminants in spices, including a brief overview of the risk characterization framework and a dietary exposure assessment, a description of the screening tool including objective, approach, framework, and data, and a tool demonstration (lead in cinnamon/cassia as a case study).
Letter to the Editor on Proposed Heavy Metal Limits for Spices in New York
This is ASTA's response to New York State's new regulatory policies for heavy metals in spices published in the Journal of Regulatory Science. The publication points out critical issues in New York State's exposure assessment and key concerns regarding achievability, and unintended consequences from the implementation of the proposed recall action levels.
