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Wegmans Food Markets issues allergen alert on undeclared milk in Wegmans Neptune Salad

Wegmans Food Markets is recalling Wegmans Neptune Salad (UPC begins with 20108831), sold in random-weight packages, in the seafood depart...

New Seasons Market issues allergy alert on undeclared eggs in Bacon Shallot Potato Salad

New Seasons Market is recalling approximately 60 pounds of Bacon Shallot Potato Salad because it may contain undeclared eggs.

purely elizabeth voluntarily recalls granola due to potential presence of foreign material

purely elizabeth has initiated a voluntary recall on several of its Grain-Free Granola offerings due to possible foreign matter cont...

Blount Fine Foods recalls Panera BREAD at HOME Chicken Tortilla Soup due to possible foreign matter contamination

Blount Fine Foods, a McKinney, Texas establishment, is recalling approximately 6,690 pounds of soup with chicken products that may be con...

PSSI promotes Dawn Winsauer to vice president of operations

PSSI, the industry’s leading food safety and contract sanitation provider, has announced the promotion of Dawn Winsauer to its lead...

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Food Safety Management

Warehouse compliance to the Food Safety Modernization Act

Jerry Heaps

I recently had a warehouse manager mention that it had been twelve years since an FDA inspection. …

Regulatory

Processors must soon comply with FSMA's rule to try to stop intentional adulteration

Under the Intentional Adulteration rule, domestic and foreign food facilities are required to complete and maintain a written food defense plan that assesses their potential vulnerabilities to deliberate contamination where …

Food Manufacturer & Processor

Extending the applications of blockchain in the food manufacturing industry

Wayne Labs

According to a new NIST report, blockchain technology is being used to provide not only tamper-resistant transmission of manufacturing data for making machine parts, but also perfect traceability of that …

Regulatory

Cannabis, whole genome sequencing, blockchain discussed at 2019 Food Safety Summit

The 21st Annual Food Safety Summit occurred last week in Rosemont, IL, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, and over 1,400 food safety professionals representing the leading foodservice and retail …

Food Safety Management

Current best practices for developing sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOPs)

Bonnie Biegel

One of the core components of a fully implemented food safety plan are sanitation controls. …

Regulatory

Preventing a recall: It starts with the label

Lee Patty

Food labeling—whether it’s for allergens or simple nutritional information—is one of the most critical, but overlooked, steps in food and beverage manufacturing and retail. …

Food Distributor

Study: Food safety issues carry increasingly high risks for suppliers

The stakes are rising for food suppliers in a landscape of continuously evolving food safety challenges, technologies and regulations, according to a new from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange Division, Denver, Colo. …

Legal perspectives on the state of CBD

Douglas Peckenpaugh

CBD holds massive potential across every area of food and beverages. According to The Brightfield Group, the U.S. hemp-derived CBD market could hit $22 billion by 2022.

Security

Developing an effective Food Defense Program (FDP)

Shawn Stevens

FSIS encourages establishments to voluntarily adopt and implement a Food Defense Plan (FDP), and to conduct training and exercises to ensure preparedness.

Sanitation and Sanitizers

More than clean: PSSI bolsters how its sanitation protects food

Rose Shilling

PSSI, which sends in its teams to clean and sanitize many top food facilities, has made changes to reinforce how it helps protect the food supply.

Food Safety Management

Processors must ensure their PCQIs are qualified, trained and experienced

Richard Stier

Food processors have a mandate to ensure that they have someone with a new title on board: the preventive controls qualified individual, or PCQI.

Regulatory

OSHA, FSIS and worker safety

Wayne Labs

While robots are taking over dangerous jobs in newer automated meat and poultry plants, the rest still use mostly manual labor.

Sanitary Plant & Equipment Design

Are you the weakest link in the sanitary design chain?

John Johnson

Being the weakest link in any organization or supply chain is not an award one should strive for. But the axiom “a team, organization or process is only as good as its weakest link” is true, as is the processes of food safety and sanitation are only as good as the weakest links. These links can be categorized into objective (mechanical) and subjective (human) areas. So how can the weakest links in the sanitary food supply chain be identified and continually improved?

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