Food Safety

FDA announces latest actions taken in response effort to the COVID-19 pandemic

Documents detail personal protective equipment recommendations and flexibility in labeling requirements.

May 26, 2020

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Food Safety

Best Food Defense Plan? Cue the Offense

Updates to food defense plans should occur when a plant changes its equipment design or installation layouts, or has changes in personnel, ingredients, or packaging material vendors.

May 17, 2020

Food Safety

Tyson Site Has over 700 Workers Test Positive for Coronavirus

Employee test results lead company to state it expects continuing slowdowns and temporary idling of production facilities.

May 6, 2020

Food Safety

Triumph Foods Reports 373 Workers Positive for Coronavirus

All the COVID-19 positive employees and contact workers at Buchanan County, Missouri pork processing plant were asymptomatic.

May 5, 2020

Food Safety

Tyson Resumes Operations at Logansport Facility, Rolls Out On-site Health Care Services

While the Logansport facility was closed, the meat processor added more workstation barriers, installed more hand sanitizer dispensers, and did additional deep cleaning and sanitation.

May 4, 2020

Cleaning and Sanitation

Anti-Microbial Surfaces Add a Level of Comfort

To maximize the benefits of anti-microbial flooring and surfaces, processors must consistently maintain them and keep them clean.

April 29, 2020

Food Safety

Leprino Foods Shuts Down Plant

Company closes doors at dairy foods processing plant following coronavirus testing.

April 24, 2020

Food Safety

Smithfield Foods Closing Additional Pork-Processing Plants

COVID-19 concerns cited after employees at 2 facilities test positive, and 1 worker is hospitalized with the disease.

April 24, 2020

Food Safety

Tyson Foods Suspending Operations at Iowa Plant

Company plans to indefinitely suspend operations at Waterloo, Iowa pork plant due to COVID-19 concerns.

April 21, 2020

Food Safety

FDA Blueprint on ‘New Era of Smarter Food Safety’ Delayed

Food and Drug Administration

Agency says it must shift its effort to respond COVID-19 pandemic.

April 21, 2020

Food Safety

FDA’s New Era of Smarter Food Safety

The agency’s vision is based on three fundamental tenets: It must be people-led; it should be FSMA-based; and solutions should be technology-enabled.

April 15, 2020

Pest Control

How to Create a Winning Integrated Pest Management Program

A successful IPM program takes a preventive, strategic approach to pest management in order to drastically reduce or eliminate pest problems for the long-term.

April 14, 2020

Food Safety

Coronavirus Testing for U.S. Food Plant Workers May Be Offered

Program under consideration by Trump administration due to COVID-19 outbreaks at food manufacturing facilities

April 10, 2020