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Features: Conference Board of Canada Calls for Improving Country’s Traceability System
Following the recent massive beef recall in Canada, the Conference Board of Canada has issued a new report calling on all companies in the country’s supply chain to improve product traceability.
Features: Food Companies Should Focus on GFSI Compliance While Waiting on FSMA
A tally of food recalls in the U.S. during a 12-month period offers an early view of the impact of Global Food Safety Initiative certification on food safety.
Features: Verification, Validation Key to Helping Food Companies Comply with GFSI Standards
While consumers’ desire for knowledge about the makeup of their meals grows, so does their need to be reassured about food safety measures that are implemented across the entire supply chain.
Features: Philip Nelson's Aseptic Bulk Storage Revolutionized Global Food Trade
How the “Tomato King” of Indiana changed the global food landscape.
Features: FSIS Debuts New Online Consumer Complaint Form for Foodborne Illness
If you’re violently ill after eating a restaurant hamburger on a Friday night, you might not remember to call a consumer complaint hotline when it reopens the following Monday. As of September 27, you don’t have to: The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service now has an online consumer complaint form to take reports 24/7 about problems with meat, poultry, and egg products.
Features: Stochastic Mapping Could Speed Foodborne Illness Tracking
A mapping tool developed by government scientists to aid adversarial risk assessment—predicting areas of the food chain where malicious contamination resulting from sabotage might occur—could also assist public health officials and industry in pinpointing the sources of contamination when an accidental outbreak of foodborne illness occurs.
Features: Industry Observers Predict Delays in FSMA Implementation Likely in Current Political and Economic Climate
Cost is a key impediment to widespread compliance with of the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2010, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg recently said, according to Reuters. Hamburg predicted that the regulations will be released “very soon” but added that the agency would need industry cooperation to fully adopt all provisions of the law.
Features: Massive Canadian Beef Recall Puts Pressure on CFIA and Raises Questions on Timing of Plant Closing
The massive recall of E. coli-contaminated beef from Canadian processor XL Foods in Alberta now encompasses more than 1,700 beef products and is considered the largest in the country’s history.
Features: Antibiotic-Free Pigs Remain Home for Resistant Bacteria
As more and more antibiotic-resistant pathogens appear in livestock, it seems logical that eliminating antibiotics from animal feed might reduce the levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Features: A Gas for Salmonella in Produce
Chlorine-based decontamination is a technique commonly used for eliminating pathogens from fresh produce, but the damage it does to the products’ cell structure shortens their shelf lives
