Food Fraud Quick Bites

The Root Causes Of A Botanical Fraud

By Susanne Kuehne, Decernis

The three means of adulteration of Eleuthero root are explained.

Highlights of FDA’s 2021 Achievements in Food

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Persevering through another year of the pandemic, the agency made some strong strides in advancing food safety efforts last year.

FSIS Reflects on 2021, Points to Progress in Transparency,
More Collaboration

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The agency is touting its achievements in the area of pathogen control, supporting small businesses, transparency in labeling, and more effective collaboration with partners, to name a few.

New Physical Security Guidance Seeks to Provide Risk-Based Food Defense Insights to the Food and Beverage Industry

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The ASIS Food Defense and Ag Security Community, in partnership with the Food Defense Consortium, is seeking comments on the draft of a new resource document in an effort to help the industry implement more effective risk-based mitigation strategies related to food defense.

FDA Releases Report on Salmonella Outbreak in Packaged Leafy Greens

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The outbreak is believed to be the first of its kind associated with a domestic controlled environmental agriculture operation.

FST Soapbox

The Costs Of Food Safety: Correction vs. Prevention

By Matt Regusci, ASI Food Safety

Every company that grows, produces, packs, processes, distributes and serves food has a food safety culture. In the food industry, when looking at food safety culture there are essentially two groups: The correction and the prevention groups. Basically, the prevention group is constantly improving their food safety practices to minimize foodborne illness while the correction group waits until there is an outbreak to make changes.

In the Food Lab

How Baby Food Companies Can Minimize the Concentration
of Heavy Metals in Products

By Jonathan Sharp, Environmental Litigation Group, P.C.

Given that an alarming amount of the baby food found on the market today contains dangerous concentrations of heavy metals, manufacturers must take measures to minimize the presence of cadmium, arsenic, lead and mercury in their products.

What Does Digital Food Safety Mean?

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Featured Quote

Modern breweries are increasingly using new and advanced technologies throughout the brewing process to maintain high quality products. Technologies like water purification systems, titrators and portable instruments such as hand-held pH meters and spectrophotometers are all being utilized to improve and refine the manufacturing process. A major focus of this technological drive is in turbidity detection and removal.

– Steve Guay, Thermo Fisher Scientific