Fight for Food Safety

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Fight for Food Safety

FSIS, FDA should merge

Creating a single food-safety agency under FSMA rules would eliminate redundancy.
June 14, 2013
We have heard a lot lately about government funding shortfalls, and the impact it is having on the ability of many agencies to fulfill their responsibilities.
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Apples and oranges from the same organizational tree

May 7, 2013
Although I defend food companies in high-profile foodborne illness outbreak lawsuits throughout the country, the majority of my time is spent working with clients to improve the quality of their operations from a risk-exposure and brand-protection standpoint.
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Preventing recalls: A ‘hot’ topic

April 9, 2013

Can anyone really guarantee that your products will never be implicated in a recall? For most raw beef processors, the response has consistently been that, in the absence of a validated intervention such as high-pressure processing or irradiation, such a statement was impossible.


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How to best communicate to consumers during an outbreak or recall

Ways to ensure consumers get the right ‘flavor’ from your message.
March 12, 2013
Indeed, sometimes really bad things, such as outbreaks and recalls, happen to really good companies.
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Incentivizing food safety, part 2

February 7, 2013

In our last column, we introduced the fundamental challenges facing the industry as it works to improve food safety. 


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Incentivizing food safety, part 1

January 11, 2013
Not a single day goes by when we don’t hear about the critical importance of food safety. We need to develop, embrace and encourage a robust food-safety culture, we’re told.
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Turning up the heat

December 7, 2012
USDA recently announced that it is planning on requiring meat companies to begin placing additional safe-handling labeling on steaks that are mechanically or needle-tenderized.
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Is it time to refit your tool belt?

November 6, 2012
HACCP is an ingenious, science-based system that has dramatically improved food safety in the U.S.
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Safe-handling our customers

October 2, 2012
In recent years, we have actually begun to see a decline in the number of foodborne-illnesses outbreaks.
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The validation vex

September 6, 2012
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has been working for months now on a new approach to validate the effectiveness of existing Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems.
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