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Food Safety

Cleaning, sanitizing programs are part of the food safety equation

March 18, 2019

A cleaning and sanitizing process has always been a key element for ensuring food safety and quality, but its importance has escalated over the years.

Food Safety

Processors must ensure their PCQIs are qualified, trained and experienced

Richard F. Stier

February 14, 2019

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Food processors have a mandate to ensure that they have someone with a new title on board: the preventive controls qualified individual, or PCQI.

Food Safety

ANSI certifies Perry Johnson Registrars Food Safety Inc. under new FDA program

FDA’s Accredited Third-Party Certification Program covers four main categories in food safety including preventive controls and HACCP

Wayne Labs

September 5, 2018

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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has notified FDA that Perry Johnson Registrars Food Safety Inc. (Troy, MI) has become the first certification body to be accredited under FDA’s Accredited Third-Party Certification Program for four program scopes. They include Produce Safety, Preventive Controls for Human Food, Juice HACCP and Seafood HACCP.

Food Safety

The importance of preventive controls

Preventive controls are a must for processors to meet safety goals

Wayne Labs

April 22, 2018

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The idea of preventive controls is not process-centric, but risk based. And its principles are not new concepts.

Food Safety

How food processors can build corrective action programs

Processors must have a program to identify deviations and initiate corrective actions or corrections

Richard F. Stier

March 16, 2018

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According to FSMA, each processor must have a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI). This person is responsible for developing the food safety program, ensuring the controls are validated, reviewing records and reassessing the plan.

Food Safety

Prerequisite programs ensure food safety

A regulatory shift that happened years ago remains a key part of food safety management today.

Richard F. Stier

January 17, 2018

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In 1995, the seafood HACCP regulation was enacted in the US and marked a major milestone in the history of food safety.

FDA’s top 5 most commonly cited food safety violations

FY 2017 top violations are almost the same as those cited in FY 2016 and 2015.

Debra Schug

December 20, 2017

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Among the top five violations during 2017 were lack of pest control and sanitation monitoring.

Engineering R&D

Plasma sparks new cold sterilization technique

Plasma is known for being in TVs, cutting devices and futuristic rocket engines, but it also is an effective non-thermal lethality agent.

Wayne Labs

November 27, 2017

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While plasma could be useful in a number of food applications, using it to create a non-thermal sterilization system will likely be the most attractive to processors.

Food Safety

How the history of food safety shapes today's rules

From testing to preventative controls, a look back at the ever evolving world of food safety

Richard F. Stier

February 15, 2017

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A commitment to food safety certainly is not new.

SafetyChain Software acquires Vigilistics, Inc.

August 5, 2016

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The acquisition will enhance SafetyChain’s food safety and quality solutions with increased operational visibility, robust analytics and patented equipment data extraction technology.

Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development

Packaging Research in Food Product Design and Development is the first book to comprehensively address the issues of graphics design and visual concepts, from a systematic, scientific viewpoint, yet with business applications in mind.

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Food Engineering

2019 August

In the August 2019 issue of Food Engineering, we feature seven Fabulous Food Plants that demonstrate how the decision to build new or upgrade really comes down to which option keeps you competitive.

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