Articles By Laurel Maloy
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LGMA Offers Food-Safety Training Videos
11/20/2014
A video, featuring two victims of the 2006 spinach E. coli outbreak, has been produced for California farm workers — though all producers of leafy greens can benefit from using this tool for employee training
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3 Ways To Mitigate Food Fraud Vulnerability
11/19/2014
Economically Motivated Adulteration is on the rise, so the U.S. Pharmacoeial Conventions is providing assessment tools to combat it with its new guidance document.
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FDA Redefines “Farm” For Food-Facility Registration
11/18/2014
There has been much confusion over the definition of a “farm.” The new language more-clearly defines the term and will exempt some farms that were previously required to register
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Allergen-Based Recalls Put Two Food Makers In The Headlines
11/18/2014
Mislabeling events at two food making firms have put not only put consumers at risk, but have also put their brand reputation in jeopardy.
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How Is Your Facility's Compressed-Air Quality?
11/14/2014
Microbial and solid contaminants can infiltrate compressed-air systems and cause food contamination at points of both direct and indirect contact, on food and food-contact surfaces. Is your system doing everything it can to prevent this?
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CFSAN's Michael Landa To Pass Leadership Torch
11/13/2014
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition — operating under the Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine — plays a critical role in ensuring the safety of America’s food supply
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Food Fraud: Truly Troubling Or Hyper Hysteria?
11/12/2014
Food fraud can be either economically motivated or intentionally malicious. Neither is comforting, but just exactly how at risk is the food-supply chain?
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FDA Seeks Public Comment On Revised Sections Of FSVP
11/11/2014
The revisions associated with FSMA’s Foreign Supplier Verification Program have been published in the Federal Register and will be open for public comment through December 15.
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FSIS Approves Chinese Chicken For Export To U.S.
11/10/2014
Not everyone is crowing about this development — the end of August saw four chicken-processing plants in China receive approval from FSIS to export cooked chicken products to the U.S.
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PMMI Tells The Good And The Bad Of The Secondary-Packaging Market
11/7/2014
According to PMMI’s 2014 Executive Summary regarding the secondary packaging market, the number of companies making drastic changes to secondary packaging is declining. However, demand for improvement is still changing the face of the secondary-packaging market