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Food Safety

Are your ingredients and raw materials safe?

Risk assessment is an essential element for protecting a company’s good name, its products and its customers

June 6, 2013

Today, processors must ensure what they order is safe, high quality and wholesome, and vendors must be able to prove all of these.

TECH FLASH

FDA’s third annual Reportable Food Registry report shows increase in food contamination incidents

Fresh produce and undeclared allergen reports increased most.

Shane O'Halloran

May 28, 2013

In three cases, submissions made to the RFR alerted FDA early to potential public health issues before potentially harmful products reached the marketplace.

Processors oppose facility registration fees

Industry says FDA should raise money through appropriations process instead of imposing new fees.

Shane O'Halloran

May 16, 2013

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FSMA

FDA releases Food Defense Plan Builder

New software integrates existing tools and resources.

May 2, 2013

Owners and operators of food facilities can design custom food defense plans in accordance with FSMA regulations.

TECH FLASH

The many sides of sanitation: What manufacturers should consider when enhancing sanitation measures

New FSMA provisions are expected to place even more stringent regulations on sanitation practices.

Shane O'Halloran

April 29, 2013

Tom Egan of PMMI discusses equipment sanitation as a component of advancing food safety standards.

Court orders FDA to set new FSMA implementation deadline

A judge said the timeline for implementation should be closed-ended.

Shane O'Halloran

April 24, 2013

A judge said the timeline for implementation should be closed-ended.

FDA requests $4.7 billion budget for food safety

FSMA and food import safety are priorities.

April 11, 2013

FSMA and food import safety are priorities.

SQF Level 2 certification, FDA preventative controls compared

New report examines overlap, differences.

Shane O'Halloran

April 10, 2013

New report examines overlap, differences.

Plant Sanitation

Top five ways to get your plant sanitation FSMA-ready

Although the final FSMA preventive controls and cGMP provisions may be more than a year away, now is the time to develop and apply requisite science-based food safety plans.

Julie Larson Bricher

April 9, 2013

On January 4, 2013, two years after the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law, FDA issued its proposed Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls (HARPC) regulations.

Food Safety

Metal detection: Quality or safety?

Make sure the equipment has been properly set up and validated, and these activities have been fully documented.

Richard F. Stier

April 9, 2013

Metal detection is a fact of life in the food processing industry. Most processors, whether they process snacks, meats, grains or liquids, have either metal detectors or X-ray machines to detect and control metal contamination.