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Reported earlier in FE’s Tech Flash e-newsletter, the recent Salmonella Bredeney outbreak has sickened a total of 35 people in 19 states, and has been attributed to peanut butter—and potentially other nut butters—from Sunland Inc. (Portales, NM).

NOW Foods couldn’t take a chance that tainted ingredients would compromise the purity and integrity of its dietary supplements, so it found an easy way to spot check all incoming ingredients.

After the scary stories in January about arsenic and apple juice, now it’s rice.

Consumers may think audits equal safe food, but do they?

The Center for Science in the Public Interest says FDA has not been keeping up with implementing FSMA rules.

A food safety plan starts with prevention, but must also include the actions to take should an incident occur.

Processors must understand not only what materials are being moved through their plumbing systems, but how these lines are designed and laid out.

Intended for inspection program personnel, the revised guideline addresses sanitation, testing and prevention of cross-contamination of post-lethality, exposed RTE products.

The European Food Safety Authority is calling for data as a matter of routine.

Instead they buy organic products for the ingredients they don’t contain—like pesticides, chemicals, antibiotics, etc. But how much less is the question.