Why One Former FDA Food Commish Thinks the Food Program Needs Its Own Agency

By Food Safety Tech Staff

FDA hasn’t been prioritizing food the way in which it should, Michael Taylor wrote in a recent Op-Ed.

Identification of Salmonella in food ingredients using the Assurance GDS System

Sponsored By Millipore Sigma

Salmonella can be quite resilient, and its identification is key to ensuring safe release of food products to the public. This application note looks at the identification of Salmonella in active ingredients and infant formula and cereals using the Assurance® GDS molecular platform.

Download the Application Note

Ferrero Recalls Certain Kinder Chocolates due to Potential Salmonella Contamination

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The issue was uncovered by the manufacturing facility’s internal detection systems.

FDA Investigating Consumer Illness Complaints
from Lucky Charms

By Food Safety Tech Staff

More than 1000 people have reported illnesses on an online food safety platform for consumers.

Food Businesses:
Reduce Food Waste and Save Significant Money

By CJ Pakeltis, RizePoint

At a time when every dollar counts—and the supply chain is strained—food organizations should proactively work to reduce food waste.

Food Safety in 2022:
Sustainability, Supply Chain Issues, Consumer Preferences
and Technology at the Forefront

By Maria Fontanazza, Editor-in-Chief

The ongoing pandemic, food fraud, food insecurity, supply chain disruptions and shortages, maintaining and fostering a robust food safety culture, and foodborne illness outbreaks kept the food industry very busy last year. Looking ahead to 2022, these challenges will continue, but many food companies are becoming better at forecasting and course correcting.

FDA Seeks $57 Million in Investments in Food Safety Modernization and Funding to Reduce Chemicals in Food

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The agency is requesting a total budget of $8.4 billion as part of the President’s 2023 fiscal year budget.

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.

Featured Quote

Inventory management software has made waves in warehousing and logistics, but the food and beverage industry can capitalize on it, too. Restaurants already recognize the need for tech adoption, with 100% of surveyed establishments increasing their urgency to adopt transformational technologies.

– Emily Newton, Revolutionized Magazine

October 19, 2022 – 12:00 pm – October 21, 2022

2022 Food Safety Consortium