The Refrigerating Engineers and Technicians Association (RETA) has announced the 2023 RETA National Conference, which will be held November 14–17, 2023 at the Hyatt Regency in Jacksonville Riverfront, Florida.
A recent assessment conducted by the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided a better understanding of NEHA-FDA Retail Flexible Funding Model Grant Program (RFFM) distribution based on social needs. RFFM provides funding to state, local, tribal, and territorial retail food regulatory agencies as they achieve and advance conformance with FDA’s Retail Program Standards.
To make its end-to-end traceability and recordkeeping solution more accessible for small to mid-sized food companies, SIMBA is now offering a new subscription model with a low initial investment.
The Center for Food Integrity 2023 Transparency Summit will take place November 14–15 at the Loews Chicago O’Hare Hotel. Experts will discuss transparency opportunities and challenges across the food supply chain.
A lack of supply chain visibility frustrates efforts to ensure food safety or improve organizational efficiency and customer satisfaction. Key data points, such as unique product identification and location, need to be standardized and digitally encoded so that they can be automatically captured and shared up and down the supply chain, to help ensure interoperability.
A survey sent to stakeholders in the fresh produce sector found respondents’ top food safety priorities to differ between businesses of various sizes, as well as between industry community members and those serving in upper management, regulatory, or advisory roles.
With increasing interest in food traceability around the globe and a focus on complying with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Food Traceability Final Rule, the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) and the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) recently released an issue paper that examines traceability fundamentals and is intended as a resource for industry and other stakeholders.
FDA has announced two updates for Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) rules: the finalization of a draft guidance for sprout operations under the Produce Safety Rule and additional information about Food Traceability Final Rule (also known as FSMA 204) inspections and FDA’s Product Tracing System.
This episode of Food Safety Matters features a discussion about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Food Code in light of its 30th anniversary. We are joined by two retail food safety regulators from FDA and two environmental health specialists with experience in Food Code adoption and implementation.
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