Food Safety
The support, confidence and leadership of farmers, shippers, packers and processors is at the core of the LGMA.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service is updating the USDA Harmonized Good Agricultural Practices and GAP Plus+ audit checklists.
The Food and Drug Administration’s proposed rule on additional traceability requirements for certain foods is more complicated and expensive than it should be.
Two fresh produce organizations put their money where their mouth is and contributed to the Center for Produce Safety at the highest level.
The Food and Drug Administration’s multi-year study to enhance produce safety is taking the long view.
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is making available a web seminar about farmworker vaccinations.
Most consumers are much more worried about food safety in meat products than they are concerned about fruit and vegetable safety.
New set of GFSI benchmarking requirements will look to help ensure trust in food safety auditors and increase recognition of this vital role in securing safe food to people everywhere.
Food safety issues are drawing a concentrated focus through a dedicated track at the United Fresh Produce Association’s virtual Reimagine Conversations event.
The fresh produce industry should be prepared for the post-pandemic return of routine Food and Drug Administration inspections.
The “optics” and the science behind product testing were evaluated in a June 10 session at the United Fresh Produce Association’s Reimagine Conversations web seminar.
Save-On-Foods LP is recalling Dole brand Fresh Packed Blueberries from the marketplace due to possible Cyclospora contamination.
Consalo Family Farms, Egg Harbor City, N.J., will be updating and streamlining the electronic field traceability system on its blueberry farms.
A mislabeled vegetable tray with ranch dip has led to a recall in Florida because it contains eggs, which are considered as an allergan that must be identified on the product.
On December 18, Center for Disease Control released two statements declaring two active outbreaks of pathogenic E. coli were over.
The Packer’s editors recap the big topics of the week, from the extension of the comment period on the FDA’s food traceability rule and the 2021 outlook to redder tomatoes and better citrus merchandising.
Evidence showed that leafy greens were the likely source of a multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections this fall, but federal health officials were unable to identify a type of leafy greens responsible.
For more than two decades, the so-called “dirty dozen” list has spread inaccurate safety fears about the most popular and healthy fruits and vegetables.
With all eyes on the new administration’s priorities, and likely investments into combatting COVID-19 and the climate crisis, what science and technology trends that affect fresh produce will come to the forefront?
The exit of President Donald Trump from the White House and the beginning of a new administration isn’t expected to have any immediate ramifications for produce safety policies at the Food and Drug Administration.
The 10-year old Food Safety Modernization Act is aging nicely, most industry leaders think.
A six-week online workshop on cleaning and sanitizing relating to the produce safety rule will be offered from Jan. 26 to March 2.
What is one thing that could make the produce supply safer?
Carson, Calif.-based nanobubble technology company Moleaer, in partnership with researchers from Virginia Tech, have found oxygen-filled nanobubbles are successful in disrupting microbial biofilms.
Lancaster Foods LLC, Jessup, Md., has recalled a dozen fresh-cut butternut products, citing potential Listeria Monocytogenes contamination.
Making a difference is the ultimate goal of any food safety procedure or practice.
The grower whose butternut squash has been involved in recalls of fresh-cut products because of listeria concerns is working with the Food and Drug Administration to find the source.
The Produce Marketing Association submitted comments on the proposed U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule ‘Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Certain Foods’.
The FDA held a series of three virtual one-day public meetings at the end of 2020 to discuss the recently released food traceability proposed rule.
With the deadline to submit public comments looming, there is much to be commended in the Food and Drug Administration’s 199-page proposed Food Traceability rule (FSMA 204).