The inaugural St. Cloud State University Food Microbiology Symposium is an event designed to showcase the ever changing food safety industry. The event program features some of the industry’s most renowned innovators and experts, promising to be a truly engaging experience. Topics of discussion will include what’s new in food safety, new technologies, methods, and the importance of Quality Control testing. This event is a must attend for food scientists and technologists, quality control professionals, food microbiologists, food safety consultants and anyone interested in the fascinating science of food microbiology. Expect lots of networking and fun with a social hour to kick-off the event on Monday night, then a reception dinner the following night!
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The 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), calling upon the agency to share its federal jurisdiction over animal abuse with state
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has updated its public calendar to provide information about its meetings in March and April.
It lists meetings held by the
IAEA and FAO are to hold an event next year focusing on the use of nuclear technologies for food safety.
The International Symposium on Food Safety and Control will take
Ajinomoto Foods North America Inc. of Portland, OR, is recalling 3,370,530 pounds of frozen not ready-to-eat chicken fried rice after consumer compliments of glass in the products the
Mahrousa brand tahini is being recalled in Canada because of Salmonella contamination.
The implicated tahini is sold in jars with Arabic writing on the labels. The labels do not have
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded a warning about oysters from Canada because of contamination with norovirus.
Previously the FDA warned of oysters harvested only on Dec.
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or