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Optimizing food safety through good cleaning tool maintenance

October 31, 2017

To minimize the risk of cleaning tools becoming a source and vector of cross contamination, they must be appropriately cleaned, disinfected and maintained.

Pest prevention: What a technician sees

Shane McCoy

October 24, 2017

Here is a list of telltale indicators that pests could be threatening your facility.

Formulation Tips for Creating Healthy Snacks

Presenters at Prepared Foods' R&D Applications Seminars gave formulation advice for meeting consumer demands for healthy, higher protein snack offerings

October 24, 2017

Diana Seevers, senior application scientist, DuPont Nutrition & Health, focused her seminar topic, healthy snacking, on the benefits and challenges of adding minimally processed protein.

Bucking Bronco Image Representing the Wild Ride of the Food Safety Industry

State of the Industry

State of Food Safety 2017: Another wild ride

Andrew Lorenz

October 23, 2017

The last year has been one of change. We have a new administration, which includes a new acting undersecretary for food safety and a new acting administrator.

Rapid advancement in rapid testing

Elizabeth Fuhrman

October 17, 2017

Faster PCR methods, better culture methods, more selective enrichment methods and quantitative biosensor methods all have advance the field of rapid pathogen testing recently.

Food Safety

Antimicrobials for clean labels

Like it or not, today’s consumers want safe foods without complicated, unrecognizable chemicals and preservatives to ward off bacteria, mold and spoilage.

Wayne Labs

October 16, 2017

Consumers want clean labels with preservatives and antimicrobials that they can recognize and understand: like vinegar, ascorbic acid, rosemary or chemicals derived from organic or natural substances.

How Sartori Cheese maintains food safety in loading docks

October 12, 2017

When the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in 2011, one of Sartori's areas of focus was the loading dock environment.

Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security announces new partner funding

Funding these forward-thinking initiatives, which range from addressing on-campus student hunger to creating a multi-stakeholder food security community of practice, will yield important insights and outcomes.

October 12, 2017

The Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security, Canada, announced investments in four new projects that focus on advancing food security in Canada.

Maximize efficiency and food safety in a dairy plant

Equipment producers explain how to optimize heat exchanger and homogenizer performance.

October 11, 2017

Dairy plant managers work to keep their processing equipment running as frequently as possible to optimize plant efficiency and minimize operating costs.

A comprehensive environmental monitoring program can mitigate your recall risk

A comprehensive environmental monitoring program is the best ammunition in the fight against potential pathogen-related food recalls.

Steve Decker

October 11, 2017

It’s an unfortunate fact that food recalls still occur too often. And with the FDA’s focus on ready-to-eat (RTE) foods, the dairy industry is no exception. For example, there have been more than 20 recalls of various types of cheeses due to Listeria monocytogenes concerns thus far in 2017.