By Adrienne Cooper
Senior Events Manager, Food Safety Summit
The 2023 Food Safety Summit, the premiere event for thousands of food safety professionals, has announced five pre-event certificate courses to be offered on Monday, May
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By Wendelyn Jones
Significant resources have been invested in public health campaigns to reduce sodium intake to improve health, but dietary intake remains high, threatening safe eating habits.
Guidance from public health authorities indicates we
Continue Reading Is changing ingredients the best option to maintain safety and combat salty diets?
Editor’s note: Following is a letter sent by Consumer Reports and a coalition of concerned entities (see list below) regarding the leadership at the Food and Drug Administration in reference to the recent Reagan-Udall Foundation
Continue Reading Consumer groups call on FDA Commissioner to restore teeth to agency’s leadership
By Jeff Havens
Editor’s note: The Lewis and Clark Expedition, commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson, mapped and explored the Louisiana Purchase and areas West from 1804 to 1806, including the area from the Missouri River
Continue Reading Loco ‘local’ food law and Lewis and Clark
“Water poses a significant food safety risk in dry and low moisture food processing environments,” says Nathan Mirdamadi, a Senior Food Safety Specialist with Commercial Food Sanitation. That makes cleaning and sanitizing these areas challenging
Continue Reading When water is the enemy; sanitizing in dry food processing environments
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By Joe Reardon, Senior Director of Food Safety Programs, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) and the International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA), along with FMI
Continue Reading Risk-based science should drive food safety policy
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By Jim O’Hara
For the first time in many years, the Food Program at the Food and Drug Administration is under serious scrutiny by Congress and the press, most visibly regarding the
Continue Reading FDA food safety needs 21st century management
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By Jayne Roth, M.P.H, REHS
Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc.
At the end of 2021, a survey fielded by the National Restaurant Association showed that 78 percent of operators said their restaurants did
Continue Reading Understaffing restaurants and the risk of foodborne Illness
Editor’s note: This is a letter sent by a large coalition of consumer and industry groups to Jane Henney, the chair of the Independent Expert Panel – FDA Human Foods Program of the Reagan-Udall Foundation
Continue Reading Coalition asks review panel to consider food leader for upper echelon at FDA
This is an excerpt from a letter sent to President Biden earlier this month by a coalition of 150 groups. The topic of the letter was the upcoming negotiation of the Farm Bill, which includes
Continue Reading Groups seek president’s attention to food safety in upcoming Farm Bill