Retail Food Safety Forum

How to Use the IoT to Keep Your Restaurant Clean and Safe

By Hussain Suleman, Sigfox U.S.A.

As restaurants try to survive the COVID-19 pandemic, owners must meet new guidelines to keep guests safe and comfortable. Technology such as the IoT can help restaurant owners keep restaurants safe and sanitary.

Food Fraud Quick Bites

The Automated Nose of a Master of Wine

By Susanne Kuehne, Decernis

A new nuclear magnetic resonance method is being used for faster sample preparation.

USDA Names Sandra Eskin Deputy Under Secretary
for Food Safety

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Eskin has experience in strategic public policy issues related to consumer protection, food safety, dietary supplement safety, and food and drug labeling and advertising.

FST Soapbox

Regulatory Cross Cutting with Artificial Intelligence
and Imported Seafood

By Angel M. Suarez, EAS Consulting Group

The FDA is using technology to make significant strides in its surveillance strategy.

Ask the Expert:
Do Electronic Pest Monitoring Systems Meet Third-Party Auditor Requirements for GFSI Certification Programs and Other Standards?

By Steven Sklare, The Food Safety Academy

Broad adoption of electronic rodent monitoring (ERM) will be essential to moving food safety and pest management forward, and language specific to remote rodent monitoring systems is currently being incorporated into international food safety program standards.

Early Bird Rate for 2021 Food Safety Consortium Virtual Conference
Spring and Fall Series Expires March 18

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The 9th annual Food Safety Consortium will bring together perspectives from different angles in food safety to discuss topics that include FDA and FSMA, supply chain challenges, and the lasting impact of COVID-19 and strategies for the industry to move forward. Registration is open now.

FST Soapbox

HACCP is the Past, Present and a Building Block for the Future

By Earl Arnold, AIB International

One of the first true approaches to a preventive food safety strategy, HACCP remains the most utilized form worldwide.

Reset, Rethink, Recharge:
First Virtual GFSI Conference to Address Urgent Topics
in Food Safety

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The annual event takes place next week and will unite more than 500 food industry professionals and stakeholders from more than 60 countries.

HorizonScan Hazard Challenge:
Quiz 7

Welcome to our seventh weekly HorizonScan Hazard Challenge!

The answer to last week’s question is shown at the bottom of this article.

Food Fraud Quick Bites

Food Authenticity:
2020 in Review

By Karen Everstine, Ph.D., Decernis

Supply chain disruptions increased the incentive and opportunity for
food fraud.

Featured Quote

The last thing you need right now is a failed audit due to preventable pest issues. Failing a first, second or third-party audit can lead to many consequences such as a damaged reputation, reduced profits and worst of all, lost customers.

– Judy Black, Rollins, Inc.

Book Preview:
Food Fraud: A Global Threat with Public Health and Economic Consequences

The book provides a holistic discussion of food fraud prevention and compliance with regulatory and industry standards. Included in the book is a brief overview of the history of food fraud, current challenges, vulnerabilities facing the food industry, requirements for compliance with regulatory and industry standards on mitigating vulnerability for food fraud, with a focus on the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Benchmarking Requirements.

Download Chapter 1

New Sanitation System Fills the Gaps in Traditional ATP Testing Methods

ATP is the most widely used sanitation indicator test, but ATP is unstable and rapidly decomposes. This means conventional systems that test for ATP alone may miss bacteria and pathogens. New technology is now available to detect this hidden contamination.

Download the Whitepaper

2020 Food Safety Consortium Virtual Conference Series:
Professional Development & Women in Food Safety
(Episode 9)

Sessions include A Diverse Panel for Women and Young Professionals in Food Safety; Paths to Leadership; and We Asked, You Answered—The Voice from Women in Food Safety.

2020 Food Safety Consortium Virtual Conference Series:
Food Safety Culture
(Episode 12)

A discussion on how food safety professionals can bridge the gap between the C-Suite and Food Safety.