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 Alchemy Systems.
Registration opens for IAFP 2018
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Continue Reading Briefly: Tapeworm tale — IAFP 2018 — Sanitary food transport
As part of the preventive refocus that is the cornerstone of the Food Safety Modernization Act, the Food and Drug Administration has launched an online training tool to help trucking companies meet the requirements of the new Sanitary Transportation Rule.
“The Sanitary Transportation Rule requires rail and motor vehicle carriers
Continue Reading FDA launches training module on Sanitary Transportation Rule
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published three waivers to the now final Sanitary Transportation rule mandated by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
The waivers are for businesses whose transportation operations are subject to separate State-Federal controls. They include:
Wal-Mart fresh food delivery trucks
Continue Reading FDA permits three exceptions from sanitary transportation rule
It’s the dead of summer and a truckload of fresh beef is making its way from the Texas Panhandle to a distribution center in Tennessee. Somewhere around mile 670, in western Arkansas, the truck breaks down.
A quick assessment by the driver reveals
Continue Reading Tech helps shippers, transporters keep it cool, safe, compliant
There are mountains of it; fresh, nutritious, beautiful — belonging on the finished plates of high-end restaurants, school lunch trays and dinner tables across America. But instead, it’s dumped into landfills to rot into nothing — enough each year to feed 3 billion people.
On top of that overall estimate,
Continue Reading Technology gives transparency to transportation food safety
A breach in food safety is enough to knock restaurants, grocers, retailers and everyone in the supply chain to their knees when contaminated food contaminates the trust consumers have in their products. Take Chipotle Mexican Grill for example, the most recent poster child for damaged customer relationships.
In July 2015,
Continue Reading Contaminated food contaminates consumers’ trust
In 2006 when an E. coli outbreak linked to fresh spinach spurred recalls, some truckers were left holding the bag, semi-trailers full of bags of spinach that shippers refused to take back and receivers refused to take. 
Commercial drivers and members of the national trade association OOIDA (Owner Operator Independent
Continue Reading Sanitary transportation rule follows FSMA preventive model
In front of hundreds of food industry and trade association representatives in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) presented its unified plan to roll out and implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Signed by President Obama in January 2011, FSMA will bring about the
Continue Reading FDA Kicks Off the ‘Year of the Food Safety Modernization Act’
The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) wants the Food and Drug Administration to make significant changes to its proposed rule for sanitary food transportation under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). In addition, the association is asking that FDA reissue language for parts of the rule like it plans
Continue Reading Trade Association Wants FDA to Change and Reissue FSMA Transport Rule
