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Shawn K. Stevens

Shawn K. Stevens

Shawn Stevens is the founding member of Food Industry Counsel LLC, a law firm formed in 2014 to represent the food industry exclusively in regulatory and other matters involving food safety and quality. Contact Stevens at (920) 698-2561 or stevens@foodindustrycounsel.com, or visit his Web site, www.foodindustrycounsel.com.

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Microbiologist testing beef sample

Food safety interventions must target origins as well as vectors

Sound interventions must target origins as well as vectors of contamination.
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Shawn K. Stevens
May 19, 2022
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The English language is weird. It is a hodge-podge mix of many languages that has evolved in transformative ways over the decades and centuries leading to today.


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Food Safety Culture

The Food Safety Culture Challenge

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Shawn K. Stevens
March 25, 2022
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In early 2011, Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act (“FSMA”). The new legislation, which was signed into law quickly, was designed to improve the overall safety of FDA-regulated products. 


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Salmonella

Salmonella is likely FSIS’ next big target

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Shawn K. Stevens
February 22, 2022
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The year 2007 is often non-affectionately referred to as “The Year of the Recall.”


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Bacterial culture plate with chicken meat

2021 Recalls: Year in Review

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Shawn K. Stevens
January 25, 2022
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Once again, the meat industry deserves to be congratulated for another great year! With fewer than 50 recalls at the time of this writing, 2021 will go down in history as one of the safest years for the meat industry in the last two decades.


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Is pathogen persistance plummeting?

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Shawn K. Stevens
December 17, 2021
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When it comes to pathogen control in raw beef products, a lot has changed over the past 20 years. 


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Focus on your food safety records before FSIS does

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Shawn K. Stevens
November 16, 2021
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Over the last two years, the food industry has been put to the ultimate agility test. The effects of COVID-19 have placed incredible strain on food companies, their overall operations and their employees.


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mask mandate

Federal mandates: We will shut you down

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Shawn K. Stevens
October 27, 2021
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I will never forget the week of January 1, 2021, hearing every person I encountered, whether it was family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, clients, or the clerk at the local grocery store, proclaim in cheerful form, “Thank Goodness 2020 is behind us!” Most would go on to proclaim further, many in an even brighter tone, “I can’t wait for 2021!” Neither could I.


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Sesame

Open Sesame: The allergen list continues to grow

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Shawn K. Stevens
September 21, 2021
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Over the last two decades, undeclared allergens have accounted for nearly 45% of all food product recalls. 



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Ransomware

Ransomware: An existential threat to your business

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Shawn K. Stevens
August 23, 2021
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A recent spate of high-profile ransomware attacks has caught many off guard. Unfortunately, this sort of attack is in its relative infancy.


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Fight for food

2021 recall trends continue to set records

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July 21, 2021
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So far in 2021, there have been just 21 recalls of USDA regulated products.
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