Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine to Disrupt Food Supply Chain

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Several food and beverage companies have shutdown operations in Ukraine.

Quality Management Software:
A Buyer’s Guide for Modern Quality Teams

Sponsored By RizePoint

In an ever-more connected world, quality teams don’t have the visibility they need. Pen and paper evaluations transferred to spreadsheets have been the norm for decades. But sparse, disconnected data doesn’t cut it anymore.

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Family Dollar Recall Highlights Need for Sound Pest Management Plan

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The dollar store chain recalled several FDA-regulated products after an agency inspection uncovered unsanitary conditions, including rodent infestation.

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Quality in the Cloud:
5 Tools to Remedy Food Safety Fears

By Eric Weisbrod, InfinityQS

Cloud-based quality management solutions offer simple deployment, rapid scalability and low up-front costs—breaking down many of the barriers to digital transformation. Here are five features that food manufacturers should look for in such a solution.

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What Is the Current State of the Food Safety Industry
and Where Is It Going?

By Rick Biros, President and Publisher, Food Safety Tech

The goal now is not to get food safety back to 2019 levels but to build it better.

Food Fraud Quick Bites

Best Practices in Setting Up Food Fraud Programs

By Karen Everstine, Ph.D., Decernis

A food fraud program should identify targeted measures based on an organization’s unique supply chain risk to ensure food safety, authenticity and brand protection. Ongoing supply chain disruptions dictate the need for vigilant attention to ingredient and supplier risk. Many food companies find value in expert guidance to set up a food fraud program so that food safety and fraud risks are not unintentionally missed.

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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Given this new data points to the significant health risks associated with BPA, it is critical that the FDA set a maximum limit of BPA in food that is safe for consumers. The constant exposure consumers have to BPA in food could pose an unacceptable danger and increases the likelihood of harmful outcomes, such as limiting brain development in children and negatively impacting reproductive health, so it is essential those levels be reduced to an acceptable level.

– Michael Hansen, Consumer Reports

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Food Safety Tech Hazards Series: Salmonella

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