Maintaining Data Security in Plant Operations

By Matthew Taylor and Tony Giles, NSF

Increased cybersecurity breaches across all sectors have proven that no industry is immune to attacks. With food companies responsible for food safety, a smooth supply chain and confidential formulation protection, they need to know how to protect their data and assets. NSF experts break down what food companies need to know about cybersecurity and what they can do to increase data protection.

Development of a Simplified Assurance® GDS workflow
for Detection of Salmonella in Cocoa

Sponsored By MilliporeSigma

Cocoa has antimicrobial properties and is a difficult matrix for the detection of Salmonella. Cocoa testing workflows are therefore quite cumbersome relative to other food matrices. Our goal was to create simple, robust methods for PCR-based detection of Salmonella in cocoa (AOAC PTM 050602). In this poster we describe two sample preparation workflows, each with their own advantages. The double IMS method is validation (AFNOR TRA 02/12-01/09) and offers large enrichment sampling volume. The second is a “direct dilution” method that offers the simplicity of only one immunocapture step. Download the poster now to learn more about these sample preparation workflows for Cocoa.

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From the Editor’s Desk

Food Safety Tech Hazards Series Expands to
In-Person Events in 2023

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Building on the popularity and success of its virtual events, Innovative Publishing is expanding its Food Safety Tech Hazards Series to include two in-person events coming this spring and fall.

FST Soapbox

Will California and the Supreme Court Cripple
the Pork Industry?

By Matthew Regusci, ASI

An upcoming decision by the Supreme Court could have an enormous impact upon the nation’s pork supply and prices, as well as reverberations affecting interstate commerce in several industries.

Food Safety Tech Hazards Series:
Physical and Chemical Risks

Sponsored By Columbia Laboratories
and Mérieux NutriSciences

Regulators, and members of industry and academia cover the key chemical and physical hazards facing the food industry and how to prevent and detect contamination in your supply chain and manufacturing facilities. Presenters include Wendy White, Georgia Institute of Technology; NSF’s Geoff Farrell; Jessica Cox and Carole Brevett of the DHS Chemical Security Analysis Center; Steven Gendel, Ph.D.; and Bill South, Ph.D., of the FDA CFSAN.

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Food Safety Attorney

No Magic Bullets:
Making Health Claims that Comply with FDA Regulations

By Jennifer Allen, Zwillinger Wulkan

The FDA does allow food companies to make health claims on their product labels, but manufacturers need to be aware of how those claims are worded as well as disqualifying ingredient levels that could put you in the crosshairs of regulators.

José Emilio Esteban, Ph.D. Sworn in as
USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Dr. Esteban joined the USDA FSIS in 2001 and was appointed Chief Scientist of the FSIS in August 2018.

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- Kari Hensien, Rizepoint

January 25, 2022 – 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Overcoming Challenges of the New FSMA Traceability Rule