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NEA and AVA step up food safety checks during festive season
The National Environment Agency (NEA) and Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) are to step up checks on food sites during the holiday season.
The agencies told all operators and consumers to practice good food and personal hygiene because safe preparation and food handling will minimize the risk of
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FSAI audit finds problems with retailers’ recall procedures
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland has found some stores in the country had “deficiencies” in procedures to withdraw or recall food.
An audit showed four stores had no processes in place to effectively deal with the withdrawal or recall of a food supplied by a local supplier, e.g. meat
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Publisher’s Platform: It’s past time for FDA to out retailers
On March 7, 2017, The SoyNut Butter Company recalled all varieties of I.M. Healthy SoyNut Butters and all varieties of
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On a clear day you can see omnichannel biz forever with IOT
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a four-part series sponsored by Par Technologies. For Parts 1 through 3, please see the links below.
About one in four households —23 percent to be exact — in the United States purchase groceries online, according to research by the Nielsen Company
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Researchers need retail help with cantaloupe safety project
Growers are enthusiastically helping a team of scientists researching how cantaloupes pick up and pass on pathogens in a first-of-its-kind project, but retailers have not stepped up.
The two-year
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Hello from the other side: Retailers as a force in food safety
Adele is a singer from my homeland who made history by having the quickest selling record of all time. The signature tune “Hello” was an emotional rendition of lost love. When I first heard it I was reminded of the role of retailers in food safety — they’re involved in
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Retail deli operators unaware of Listeria recommendations
Retail delicatessens and their food safety programs are the target of a year-long, nationwide pilot project that begins next week and seeks to determine whether best practices are being used to control Listeria monocytogenes. During a pre-pilot exercise from Dec. 8-15, 2015, inspectors visited 16 retail delis and found
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Settlement could be near in Safeway loyalty card food safety case
Settlement negotiations could be nearing conclusion in a federal civil case that pits consumers against Safeway Inc. in a quest for increased communication from the retailer during food recalls. The case seeks an order forcing Safeway to use loyalty card data to notify customers about recalls of food they have
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