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For many food products, validating and verifying a process sounds like a simple task if the product has been made for years and is considered very safe.

Recent advances in nanotechnology may provide a unique alternative intervention method to address the problem of foodborne diseases.

It is important for manufacturers of organic or clean-label products to select packaging that helps them deliver on brand promises of purity.

The new Food Safety Modernization Act rule on intentional adulteration encourages U.S. food companies to take measures that prevent food safety problems from occurring and harming consumers.    

Food personnel safety and security plans are not stand-alone efforts, unconnected to the business practices that make for company success, they must be firmly integrated into the company’s food safety culture.

While FDA continues to use this standard for assessing the safety of food packaging materials, changes are taking place.

Acme Smoked Fish Corporation is widely recognized as an industry leader for premium specialty smoked and cured seafood products.

Campylobacter is also one of the foodborne pathogens that have frustrated public health agencies’ efforts to reduce its contribution to illnesses.  

The health and well-being of food handlers and proper hygiene practices often gets over-looked when push comes to shove in the retail food industry.

One solution to solve biofilm contamination in food processing plants is to inoculate the production environment with probiotic microorganisms proven to be inhibitory to pathogens.