Food Safety

GFSI Releases Case Study Booklet

New and improved Case Study Booklet includes real stories on business actions to advance food safety

February 19, 2020

Regulatory: Page 15

Regulatory

FDA Releases Third Installment of the Draft Guidance for the Intentional Adulteration Rule

Food and Drug Administration

Compliance requirements of the rule for large facilities began in July 2019; inspections to begin this March.

February 13, 2020

Food Safety

FDA Releases Small Entity Compliance Guide on the Nutrition and Supplement Facts Labels

FDA

Compliance required by January 1, 2020, for manufacturers with $10 million or more in annual food sales; manufacturers with less than $10 million in annual food sales have an another year to comply.

February 3, 2020

Beverage

FDA Issues Final Guidance for Packaged Foods Manufacturers

Clarifies serving sizes, dual-column labeling

January 7, 2020

Regulatory

Legal Update--myth busting

Legal analyst Eric Greenberg discusses marketing terms not recognized by the FDA, and CBD gets its first round of warning letters.

December 16, 2019

Automation

Navigating a very complex industry

Transparency, sustainability, regulations, customer demands and the labor shortage all add up to make your job very demanding. Can automation come to the rescue?

December 3, 2019

Regulatory

FDA introduces new tool to track FSMA implementation

Will measure impact on the food safety system and more

October 1, 2019

Regulatory

USDA modernizes swine slaughter inspection for the first time in more than 50 years

The final rule has new requirements for microbial testing that apply to all swine slaughterhouses to demonstrate that they are controlling for pathogens throughout the slaughter system.

September 17, 2019

Regulatory

Legacy food company modernizes its food safety management system

Sokol and Company leverages quality management software to produce a variety of products for consumers’ changing needs while meeting strict food safety regulations.

August 2, 2019

Regulatory

FDA releases report on inspection, environmental sampling of ice cream production facilities for harmful bacteria

Listeria monocytogenes were found on non-food contact surfaces in 18 of the 19 establishments, and on food contact surfaces in the one other establishment where the pathogen was found.

April 24, 2019

Regulatory

Pest management company reduces disruptions in production due to product infestation

Has 100+ years of experience

April 2, 2019

Regulatory

Transparency vital to the food supply chain

44 percent of all United States food recalls are due to labeling issues, and because United States product recalls cost an average of $10 million per incident, 81 percent of food manufacturers consider the financial risk of a recall “significant to catastrophic.”

March 27, 2019

Regulatory

FDA and FSIS to regulate cell-cultured food products

The regulations will involve livestock and poultry.

March 11, 2019