“E. coli doesn’t surf FDA.gov to find more efficient ways to get on products… counterfeiters do.” I frequently start my presentations with this statement and it usually gets a chuckle…then a nervous laugh. All the research publications and sharing of best practices that help protect the food supply from Food Safety risks, if applied...
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Quantitative estimates of product fraud are elusive if not impossible to determine. The bad guys don’t submit annual reports and don’t share estimates of their activities – at least not outside their criminal organizations. We know what we caught but we have no idea what we didn’t catch. Did we only catch the sloppy...
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5/9/13 UPDATE: The Request for Comments due date has been extended 120 days from the original. FSMA is a landmark law that will impact the food industry for years. The “Request for Comment” process is an important way for you to contribute to how FSMA will be implemented. The previous post provided a primer...
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The US Food and Drug Administration released two draft rulemaking documents in January 2013 for the Food Safety Modernization Act that was passed in January 2011: Current Good Manufacturing Practice and Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and Holding of Produce for...
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This is the second post regarding the GFSI conference. This includes insight from the pre-conference GFSI stakeholder meetings on Wednesday and also from the conference closing remarks on Friday. Pre-Conference GFSI Meeting GFSI Vice-Chair Frank Yiannas (VP Food Safety, Walmart) led the meeting that included a set of electronic survey questions that solicited...
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