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Volume 7, Number
1   January 14,
2011

President
Obama signs food safety bill into
law
President Obama signed the
Food Safety Modernization Act into law on
January 4. The legislation upgrades the food
safety functions of FDA, which includes a broad
mandate to prevent food contamination.

Food
Safety Act may never become
reality
The Food Safety Act will
need $1.4 billion over five years to hire enough
FDA manpower needed to implement the new law.
Key House Republicans say they won't approve the
expenditure.

FDA
launches website to help processors save
time, resources
Called FDA
Basics for Industry, the new FDA website helps
processors and others save time and resources in
their interactions with the agency.

Label-change
costs higher than previously
thought
A UK survey of
processors found that the bulk of money spent in
relabeling their food and beverage projects was
for innovative reasons rather than meeting
regulatory requirements.

Defining
the food safety modernization
act
The FDA Food Safety
Modernization Act (S. 510) passed the Senate
with several amendments designed to balance
coverage fairly among large, small and
medium-sized
farms/producers/processors.

Plant
Security: Access Granted
The
potential for malicious behavior in food
manufacturing is an ongoing issue, but security
concerns also extend to workers and the controls
that run today's plants.

Automated
data collection: Rapid reporting on
demand
Tablet PCs, PDAs and even
Kindles are replacing clipboards for
manufacturers migrating to automated data
collection systems for quality control,
including HACCP checkpoints.

Poultry
processing: Tender birds, tougher
challenges
Despite improvements
in technology, poultry processors are taking it
on the chin with environmental issues and the
rising costs of water and energy.

Tech
Update: Non-thermal
processing
As consumers desire
fresher tasting food, the challenge for
processors is to produce bacteria-free products
while maintaining flavor, color and
texture.

Food Safety and Supply Chain
Traceability: Provide Your Insights

Delivering fresh and safe food to consumers
is a top goal for nearly every food and beverage
manufacturer. The focus of the upcoming Food
Safety and Supply Chain Traceability study is to
understand how Best-in-Class companies use a
specific combination of underlying business
processes and enabling technologies to achieve
enterprise-wide product and process
traceability. We request you to participate in a
brief survey about your traceability initiative.
Each respondent who answers the survey will
receive a complimentary full copy ($399 value)
of the report containing this study's results.
We thank you for your support to our
research.
Take
the 15 minutes survey
today!

Donald John Tyson (Don
Tyson), former chairman and CEO of Tyson
Foods and a leading member of Tyson's
board of directors, passed away at the age of 80
after a brief illness. Tyson was the son of John
W. Tyson, founder of Tyson Foods, and father of
current company chairman, John H. Tyson. Don
Tyson was named president of the company in 1966
and became chairman and CEO in 1967 when his
father was killed in an automobile-train
accident.

Darling International Inc.,
a provider of rendering, recycling and recovery
solutions to the food industry, completed its
merger with Griffin
Industries.

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