Food Safety And Inspection Articles

  1. Food For Thought: What Are FSMA's Recall Requirements? (Part Three Of Three) 9/26/2016

    On Monday, September 12, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the FDA partnered with Food Online for a live web chat, Food For Thought: What Are FSMA’s Recall Requirements? In this 45-minute live Q&A, Vickery Brewer, consumer safety officer at FDA/CFSAN, and Warren Stone, senior director of science policy at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) joined Food Online’s editor Sam Lewis to answer the food industry’s questions on the topic.

  2. Food For Thought: What Are FSMA's Recall Requirements? (Part Two Of Three) 9/21/2016

    On Monday, September 12, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and the FDA partnered with Food Online for a live web chat, Food For Thought: What Are FSMA’s Recall Requirements? In this 45-minute live Q&A, Vickery Brewer, consumer safety officer at FDA/CFSAN, and Warren Stone, senior director of science policy at the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) joined Food Online’s editor Sam Lewis to answer the food industry’s questions on the topic.

  3. SQF Edition 8: What To Expect 9/15/2016

    SQF has gone through many changes to keep up with industry standards and the benchmarking requirements of GFSI. When the eighth edition of SQF comes out next month, will you be ready for it?

  4. How X-Ray Inspection Can Bolster Your Food Safety Program 9/1/2016

    Product inspection is a critical and indispensable part of responsible food production. If it isn’t already, it truly needs to be embedded in HACCP and prerequisite program(s) for food producers. Food contamination with foreign matter and/or impurities can have serious implications to food producers as they are the entities directly responsible for any issues posing health and safety risks to consumers. But, what are food makers doing to create and enable a robust food safety program? Oftentimes, they seek new technology and/or inspection equipment to support their written food safety and quality programs, such as X-Ray Inspection Systems.

  5. When Does Food Spoilage Become A Food Safety Issue? A Conversation From IAFP 8/22/2016

    As part of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) annual meeting, a panel convened by Peter Taormina (Smithfield Foods) addressed the topic of food spoilage. The panelists were Doctors Melinda Hayman (GMA), Mickey Parish (FDA), William Shaw (USDA FSIS), and Ruth Petran (Ecolab).

  6. Keeping Food Safe With Light-Based Technologies 8/18/2016

    In addition to improvement of food preservation operations, creating new functional properties, and dry sanitation, further development and commercialization of light technologies have much to offer for the sustainable development of industry. This article will briefly review the basics and sources of light technologies and present the pros and cons of the potential applications and available equipment.

  7. Do You Have Management's Commitment To Food Safety? 8/15/2016

    So, you have a GFSI system in place and are being audited. You get your scores (minor non-conformances around 10 to 15). One of the non-conformance items continuing to come up is Management Commitment. What is it? What does it look like? How do you know you have it or need to make it better?

  8. Recapping The 2016 GFSF Annual Summit 7/14/2016

    This year’s Global Food Safety Forum (GFSF) summit was special in many respects, not the least of which was the site itself. The Yanqi Lake Convention and Exhibition Center is the official Asia-Pacific Economic Cooporation (APEC) convention site, underscoring a central theme of the Summit — the integral link between food safety and international trade. In addition, the scale of the Center was ideal for accommodating record attendance levels.

  9. FSMA's Intentional Adulteration Rule: Mitigation Strategies Protect Consumers And Your Brand 6/27/2016

    On May 27, 2016, the FDA finalized the last of its seven foundational rules under FSMA. Titled “Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration,” the rule is commonly referred to by industry as the “Food Defense” or the “Intentional Adulteration” rule. Published in the Federal Register last month, this rule imposes new requirements concerning food defense on many FDA-registered food facilities, both here in the U.S. and abroad.

  10. The FDA & CFIA Agree Their Food Safety Systems Are Similar… Now What? 6/2/2016

    With FSMA’s final rules being published, the clock is ticking until enforcement of the legislation becomes a reality. So, how does the FDA implement enforcement and achieve the level of oversight prescribed by FSMA? And how does the FDA ensure foreign suppliers are meeting FSMA requirements? To answer that question, in part, we need to consider foreign food safety systems and how they measure up to FSMA.