Manufacturers of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products have dramatically improved the safety of their products during the last decade.

The awards were presented during the 2013 Food Safety Summit held at the Baltimore Convention Center.

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was created to ensure the safety of the U.S. food supply. FSMA shifts industry focus from responding to contamination, to preventing it, making food processors take a more proactive approach to eliminating and preventing foodborne contaminants from entering their plants.

Recalls occur on meat and poultry products for a variety of reasons — from positive tests for pathogens to allergen-labeling issues to foreign-material contamination. Any reason for a product recall is a serious one — and each should open the industry’s eyes to what it can do better to prevent these recalls from occurring.

In its first-ever lab analysis of ground turkey products, Consumer Reports found potential disease-causing organisms in most of the samples it tested.

Canada's beef industry is about to ask the federal government to approve the use of irradiation in meat-processing plants to kill E. coli bacteria in a full range of meat products.

Ground beef and chicken pose the greatest likelihood of hospitalization, according to a new report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Campylobacter-related illnesses grew by 14 percent over the last five years.

Automation … I can almost hear you saying, “Ok, ok, enough already.

When a person walks into a grocery store and picks up a package of sliced deli meat, there would be two things that person would do: First, he or she would look at the expiration date, then that person would look at the overall appearance of the meat inside.

On demand SQF 2000, FSMA, ISO 22000/PAS220 and other standards continue to gain traction in an attempt to create safer foods and beverages.

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On demand This webinar will review the impact the plant environment has on microbiological contamination of processed foods and will demonstrate the value of rapid pathogen testing in HACCP and food safety plans.

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On demand Concerns over food safety, reliability, and traceability get a great deal of attention within plants.  Yet the highly regulated – but often-overlooked – concern for the storage and use of hazardous materials is also important.

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On demand Exclusively for thought-leaders in food and beverage processing facility management, Food Plant of the Future webinars are presented by Hixson, a leading design and engineering firm of food processing facilities in North America.

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