FEATURED FOOD SAFETY TESTING ARTICLES
In this segment of Food For Thought: FSMA’s Produce Safety Rule, Jennifer McEntire, VP food safety & technology at United Fresh Produce Association, and Maile Gradison Hermida, partner with Hogan Lovells, discuss how the FDA will enforce FSMA’s Produce Rule, how FSVP intersects with the rule, and some of the rule’s sanitation requirements.
FOOD SAFETY TESTING CASE STUDIES
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![Installed iTHERM TrustSens sensor at the brewery]( "New Belgium Brewing Refines Processes With Self-Calibrating Thermometers")
New Belgium Brewing Refines Processes With Self-Calibrating ThermometersNew Belgium Brewing needed an efficient solution to calibrate thermometers at its Asheville, NC plant. The company saved time and money and reduced risks by implementing self-calibrating thermometers.
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How Green Valley Pecan Boosts Worker Knowledge, Retention, And Confidence
Green Valley Pecan Company has grown to encompass 10,000 acres with year-round processing facilities. The company was faced with the challenge of preventing the natural knowledge loss that occurs between trainings while simultaneously boosting knowledge retention without increasing training time. This case study details the solution, systems, and tools the company implemented to achieve its goals, as well as their corresponding improvement metrics.
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Automation Enables Growth & Boosts Productivity In A Pathogen Testing Lab
A contract testing laboratory was experiencing rapid growth in pathogen testing volume. This case study shows how the lab was able to expand, with no additional resources, and provide higher quality results.
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Bigelow Tea Improves Quality And Customer Satisfaction
Bigelow Tea has been making specialty teas for over seventy years. The company grows, blends, and packages hundreds of varieties of tea for distribution across the nation. Today, the company boasts the only U.S.-based industrial tea plantation, as well as three packaging sites that employ hundreds of workers. Because of the company’s size, it needed a consistent training program across all its location. This case study examines how interactive classroom training, course customization, and multilingual content helped Bigelow Tea create a companywide, consistent training program.
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Bonduelle Achieves Six Years With Zero Lost Time Incidents
Bonduelle’s 500 vegetable varieties are processed at 58 facilities by over 10,000 workers. Safety is top of mind for the company, and with so many facilities and employees, creating a companywide culture of food safety is essential. This case study shows how Bonduelle used front-line workforce training, verification training, and automated recordkeeping and reporting to achieve its desired food safety goals.
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How Kisko Increased Its Production Efficiency By 20 Percent
Kisko Products, Canada's largest producer of freeze pops, needed a way to ensure safe and productive operations to maintain customer satisfaction. This case study shows how the company implemented standardized training and real-time reporting to improve it production efficiency and maintain customer satisfaction.
FOOD SAFETY TESTING WHITE PAPERS & ARTICLES
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![juice iStock-1196425329]( "Understanding Direct Flow And Crossflow Microfiltration In Food And Beverage Industry Applications")
Understanding Direct Flow And Crossflow Microfiltration In Food And Beverage Industry ApplicationsHere we explain direct flow and crossflow filtration with special focus on microfiltration with direct flow filters and crossflow systems to supply a better understanding of solutions for food and beverage microfiltration applications.
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![Food manufacturing conveyor tea leaves iStock-1197644742]( "Understand Hygienic Principles In Food Manufacturing")
Understand Hygienic Principles In Food ManufacturingThis guide provides you with the tools to evaluate the washdown capabilities of a given piece of production equipment.
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![Chicken Quarters]( "The Highest Standards Of Quality Control")
The Highest Standards Of Quality ControlFor food companies, specifically poultry businesses, accurate testing procedures that are quick and effective can help control contamination levels and ensure quality and consistency. Consumers are counting on companies that have these high standards. The early detection and identification of the presence of contaminant microorganisms, with rapid pathogen testing methods, is crucial.
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![Quality Testing.jpg]( "Using Flowmeter Measurements To Improve Quality")
Using Flowmeter Measurements To Improve QualityFood plants make extensive lab-based quality measurements to ensure product quality. Coriolis flowmeters can make some of these measurements in real time, saving time and money.
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![Foodborne_Illness_iStock-507714312]( "Overcoming The Challenge Of Tracking Sources Of Foodborne Illnesses")
Overcoming The Challenge Of Tracking Sources Of Foodborne IllnessesRomaine lettuce is a staple in many home and restaurant kitchens, but shoppers found the crispy green vegetable difficult to locate in late 2018. As an outbreak of E. coli-tainted romaine began to make headlines, it was pulled from store shelves and restaurant delivery trucks all over the country. By the time the source of contamination was traced back to a California farm, and sales could be restarted, more than 60 people had been infected and dozens had been hospitalized.
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X-Ray: A Solid Investment To Improve Food Safety And Quality
This article provides insight into physical contaminant detection and explains why X-Ray technology is an excellent solution for eliminating physical contaminant concerns.
FOOD SAFETY TESTING PRODUCTS
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A new rapid yeast and mold test method for dairy applications, such as yogurt, soft cheese and cream, can dramatically improve speed-to-market and reduce economic impact from spoiled product.
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Pet food manufacturers come in all shapes and sizes and may be impacted differently by the new FSMA rules. But many in the pet food industry have the same basic need: an accurate pathogen test that provides the fastest turnaround time possible. Pathogen testing methods that are best suited to the pet food industry are those that have demonstrated accurate, timely results in challenging matrices, such as environmental surfaces and dry kibble.
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![headerxx.jpg]( "DeltaTRAK Announces New Loggers, Thermometers And pH Meter For Food Safety")
DeltaTRAK, a leading innovator of cold chain management solutions and bacteria detection technologies recently announced the expansion of its food safety product line with multiple new food safety instruments including new loggers, thermometers and pH meters.
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The Atlas® System is a fully automated instrument that enhances the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of food safety testing through detection of molecular pathogens, including Listeria, Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and other organisms commonly implicated in food contamination episodes.
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The UV-VIS spectrophotometer DR 6000 delivers top performance for both routine laboratory tasks and demanding photometry applications. This system is designed for the effective work in professional laboratories. Intelligent software supports the lab manager in the calibration routine, quality assurance and development of customized application.
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The ingredients and flavorings market represents a key link in the supply chain in ensuring safety in the final product. Recent recalls have highlighted the need for improved control to minimize this vast impact and a better understanding of the results behind a COA.
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The Atlas System is a fully automated instrument that enhances the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of food safety testing through detection of molecular pathogens, including Listeria, Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and other organisms commonly implicated in food contamination episodes. The system is easy to use and incorporates many innovative features that minimize the complexity of testing processes. It is powered by technologies that provide unparalleled scalability and reliability, allowing your laboratory to meet the increasing demands of today’s testing environment, as well as those of the future.
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Food Safety in the Ready to Eat Market has become more complex. Not only is it more important than ever to control the processing environment, controlling the ingredient supply chain is paramount to ensuring your brand and more importantly ensuring your customers and brand are protected.
FOOD SAFETY TESTING MULTIMEDIA
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![Pall Food Webinar]( "Pathogens In Poultry: Lower Your Risk Using New Process Control Methods")
The poultry industry faces two critical challenges: maintaining high quality standards and minimizing the risk of pathogens. The presence of key pathogens like Campylobacter and Salmonella in product batches can lead to recalls, impacting brand reputation and causing severe losses. In this webinar learn how to optimize your pathogen testing methods with a new solution that will simplify and accelerate the simultaneous detection of Campylobacter and Salmonella and the quantification of Campylobacter in poultry samples.
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In this web chat, Jennifer McEntire, VP food safety & technology at United Fresh Produce Association joins Kristen Spotz, senior manager of food safety & quality assurance at GMA to talk all things traceability related to the food industry. In addition to providing leading traceability practices, the 45-minute session focuses heavily on McEntire and Spotz answering questions from the web chat’s audience.
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The Atlas System is a fully automated molecular instrument that enhances the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of food safety testing through detection of molecular pathogens, including Listeria, Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and other organisms commonly implicated in food contamination episodes.
