PHOENIX — With the Food Safety Modernization Act and other Food and Drug Administration regulations guiding growing and processing of fresh produce, it’s common for companies in the supply chain to have a compliance-driven mindset.
To Drew McDonald, vice president of quality and food safety for Taylor Farms, Salinas, CA,
Continue Reading Let data drive the food safety process, and share knowledge with the industry
Federal agencies are set to begin a year-long testing program on U.S. beef, pork and poultry to measure the levels of a highly toxic group of chemicals called dioxins, which are best known for their use in Agent Orange and other herbicides.
The 2018 Dioxin Survey, headed by the
Continue Reading FSIS set to begin dioxin analysis of U.S. meat, poultry
Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the support of iwaspoisoned.com.
Scientists target pathogens with research
The invention of a new small
Continue Reading Briefly: Pesticide tests — Warm walnuts — Holy Land chicken
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Fort Pierce, FL, develop a small plastic pouch to make food safer.
Sanitizers are often used to kill microbes on produce. Food processors in the U.S. add chlorine to wash water in produce packing operations
Continue Reading Packing pouches to protect produce from pathogens
Reports of a black out on public information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service are vastly overblown.
ARS Chief of Staff Sharon Drumm did send out a three-line email Tuesday to the agency’s 2,000 scientists to let them know the agency would not be releasing any “public
Continue Reading USDA saying less during transition, but scientists not gagged
Instructions for testing personnel to use a new “neutralizing buffer” solution to reduce the effect of antimicrobial sanitizers take effect today at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The “fix,” explained in a two-page FSIS Notice, is intended to address a problem turned up in research by USDA’s
Continue Reading USDA introduces ‘fix’ in testing for Salmonella in poultry
