ARTICLES
Fight for Food Safety
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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Fight for Food Safety
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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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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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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Fight for Food Safety
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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Fight for Food Safety
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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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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November 6, 2012
HACCP is an ingenious, science-based system that has dramatically improved food safety in the U.S.
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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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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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