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Metal detectors have long been famous at airport security checkpoints for their ability to keep unwanted objects off planes. Now X-ray scanners at airports have brought X-ray technology to the forefront of the public’s eye for their accurate ability to identify more materials that could be concealed.

Due to an unexpected sudden thaw this winter in Canada, I was faced with a deluge of water from my roof. Unfortunately I had not properly secured the down pipe to the eaves during the summer, and consequently water was pouring onto my driveway instead of being safely carried away into my neighbor’s garden.

The application and use of sanitizers in our industry is widespread, and it goes beyond the traditional application during the normal cleanup and sanitation process.

When government and industry were looking for a way to identify more rapidly the presence of the pathogenic Clostridium perfringens bacterium in food and water, Daniel Fung of Kansas State University realized he had a potential solution on his shelf.

There is such a thing as a bad egg, and often it has to do with Salmonella.

When I was a child, my mother occasionally asked me to postulate (by smell) on the freshness of perishable foods that, in a few terrible instances, had overstayed their welcome in our refrigerator.

The times, they are not a-changin’ — they’d changed long ago in the realm of food safety and security.as such, any processors, packers or producers who have not embraced the idea that their supply chain is vulnerable are putting their product in serious danger of anchoring all the wrong kinds of headlines.

Prior to her Feb. 10, 2011, presentation at the National Turkey Federation’s annual convention, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safety for USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), provided updates to several agency initiatives in a one-on-one interview with Dave Lurie, publisher of The National Provisioner. What follows is their conversation:

What looked like a real decision in the donning/doffing compensation battle has become unclear once again in early 2011.

Sean Thomas, GTRI research technologist, prepares a test coupon for color index analysis using a spectra-photometer. By Sean Thomas, Georgia Tech Research Institute Food processing faces numerous challenges with controlling