Food businesses that invest in digital temperature sensors will experience important benefits: reducing food safety breaches, preventing food waste, and saving significant money. Digital temperature sensors are a smart and important investment for restaurants
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“Tropical parasites in our food? No way!” most Americans think.
It’s time to think again.
In May Hawaii’s Department of Health announced three more cases of rat lungworm in recent visitors. Already endemic in
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Authors: Angela Spivey, Andrew Phillips, and Alan Pryor
It may come off as a truism that food safety is the “most central consumer safety and legal compliance issue” facing a food and beverage
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Editor’s note: Gary M. Weber, president of G.M. Weber Consulting LLC, submitted this column for original publication in Food Safety News.
Numerous E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks linked to Romaine lettuce have been a tragedy
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What if you could kill 99 percent of the potentially harmful bacteria on the surface of your fresh produce in one minute with just the flip of a switch? Consumers could have devices similar in
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Editor’s note: This article was published by the Penn State Extension Service and is reprinted here with permission.
It seems we hear about food recalls more frequently. To understand what is happening let’s look
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Today, the FDA doubled-down on its flawed 2005 and 2017 decisions to allow the hazardous chemical perchlorate to be added to dry food packaging. The FDA denied a request for a public hearing submitted
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AFDO has been a long-term collaborator with the Food Safety Summit, participating as a member of the Educational Advisory Board, coordinating summit sessions, and providing technical specialists for sessions and a presenter for the
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How much money have you lost in the past 24 hours? How much food has gone bad and how much time was wasted in your kitchen?
We all understand the paramount importance
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There are three letters that should strike fear into every food executive’s heart – and three steps those business people can take to protect their companies.
No, the three letters are not F-D-A. Although
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An emerging body of scholarship argues that machine learning and artificial intelligence can solve food safety enforcement. By mining tweets and Yelp reviews, health departments can target inspections more effectively. With much fanfare, health
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