Four Testing and Detection Trends for 2022

By Wilfredo Dominguez Nunez, Ph.D., 3M Food Safety

The challenges in food testing labs that arose in the past couple of years are still prevalent this year, but from adversity also comes innovation and change.

What Does Digital Food Safety Mean?

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Unprecedented changes in FDA regulations are driving digitisation of food supply chains. COVID-19, Blockchain and AI are also having significant impacts. Read this paper to stay informed on what these developments mean to your role and your business.

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FDA Ready to Start Domestic Surveillance Inspections

By Food Safety Tech Staff

As a result of the drop in COVID-19 cases nationwide, the agency will resume inspections across all commodities, as well as mission-critical foreign and domestic inspections.

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Food Safety’s Secret Weapon Against COVID-Related Turnover

By Adam Serfas, R.S. Quality Products

For years now, many food processors and manufacturers have looked to color-coding as a method for ensuring quality and preventing product contamination and cross-contamination. Now more than ever food facilities can benefit from a color-coding plan.

Food Fraud Quick Bites

You Know My Methods, Watson

By Susanne Kuehne, Decernis

A study of the criminal nature of food fraud was been published in the UK.

FDA Petitioned to Remove, Restrict BPA in Food Packaging

By Food Safety Tech Staff

A group of physicians, scientists, environmental and public health groups are demanding that the agency set stringent limits on the use of bisphenol A in plastics that come into contact with food.

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.

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.

Detection and Human Performance for Industrial Applications

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Little research is published on inspector performance in visual inspection tasks in the food industry. This article summarizes available research from other industries and makes recommendations for processors.

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Featured Quote

Supply chain disruptions were a big challenge for food companies in 2021, as much of the North American food system is reliant on production or raw materials from international locations. This theme will continue into 2022, as logistics become more costly and challenging from a labor perspective, food companies will naturally gravitate to exploring alternatives.

– Waylon Sharp, Bureau Veritas