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Why consumers want clean and natural ingredients

Plant-based colors likely to replace Red Dye No. 3.

July 7, 2025

Clean label is a broad concept without a clear definition, but holistically, it’s about simplicity, clarity, and transparency. In fact, some ingredient suppliers only offer organic, non-GMO, and sustainably sourced ingredients.

How to manage the dairy supply chain

The dairy supply chain continues to face ongoing pressures including labor and transportation shortages, high fuel costs, evolving regulatory and food safety concerns and more.

Sammy Bredar

June 9, 2025

Having a proper distribution system is essential to maintaining an efficient and effective dairy processing operation. The dairy supply chain continues to face ongoing pressures including labor and transportation shortages, high fuel costs, evolving regulatory and food safety concerns and more.

So you want to develop a cultured dairy product?

Learn the steps necessary to make this possible.

K.J. Burrington

May 14, 2025

If you are thinking about developing a new cultured product, then it’s important to revisit the FDA Standards of Identity (SOI).

U.S. FDA unveils Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool

March 20, 2025

The CCT Tool is an online searchable database providing a consolidated list of contaminant levels (e.g., tolerances, action levels, and guidance levels) that are used to evaluate potential health risks of contaminants in human foods.

Sugar reduction a huge component of health and wellness’ popularity

Trend expected to roll on like a freight train.

Brian Berk

March 17, 2025

Sugar reduction is not only top of mind for many consumers, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well. In January, the FDA proposed a front-of-package (FOP) nutrition label for most packaged foods.

FDA redefines the word "healthy"

December 19, 2024

To qualify as "healthy" under the updated definition, food products must contain a certain amount of a food from at least one of the food groups or subgroups outlined by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans including fruits, vegetables, protein foods, dairy and grains.

At long last, FDA’s new yogurt standard is here

IDFA commends the FDA for taking this first step for the benefit of consumers, industry and public health.

John T. Allan III, MS

July 19, 2021

In January of 2009, the FDA proposed modernizing the yogurt standard of identity, with the goals of supporting recent technological advances and increasing consistency with international yogurt standards.

Know your rights during an FDA inspection

It is essential for dairy companies to know where FDA’s authority ends

John T. Allan III, MS

Emily Lyons

February 5, 2018

Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) regulations represent a paradigm shift in how food is regulated in the United States to protect consumers from foodborne illness. The act and its corresponding regulations not only place more responsibility on food manufacturers, but also provide FDA with substantial new authority to use when inspecting facilities.

FDA proposes to extend compliance dates for Nutrition Facts label final rules

The move is in response to concerns companies and trade associations have shared with the agency regarding the time needed for implementation.

October 5, 2017

The move is in response to concerns companies and trade associations have shared with the agency regarding the time needed for implementation.

Food safety

Dairy processing facilities must follow new FDA intentional adulteration rule

This rule in many respects parallels the Preventive Controls Rule for Human Food with the exception that it deals with intentional bad acts.

Clay Detlefsen

June 2, 2016

The FDA’s Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration (the “food defense rule”) covers approximately 9,800 food facilities, including dairy plants.