The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found tennis rackets being used to scoop mung bean sprouts onto the conveyor belt during inspections at a facility linked to an outbreak of E.coli O121 which has sickened 17 people.
IFCO (a company specializing in reusable containers for food, produce, and other applications) has hit the milestone of shipping 1bn containers each year.
There should be no detectable carry-over contamination of meat when produced in line with current good manufacturing practice and properly cleaned, according to a report.
FSIS will discontinue Salmonella sampling set procedures in ground beef products for most firms from June 29 after considering comments on proposed changes.
Sanitizing surfaces to eradicate food pathogens is only half the battle, according to one expert; airborne pathogens also must be dealt with for a safe food supply.
Using whole genome sequencing (WGS) in foodborne outbreak traceback investigations is pushing the science of food safety into the next generation but there is still some work to do, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Fortress Technology (Europe) has supplied its 1000 detector this month from its UK site to the same firm that took delivery of the first one in January 2011.
The owner and chief operating office of Quality Egg have pleaded guilty on charges stemming from a Salmonella outbreak that affected thousands in 2010.
Consumers want more information about the food they buy, and technology such as smart phones could address demand for more detail on products following the horsemeat crisis and other scandals.
Food firms only have a few more days to weigh in on a rule requires companies to give a heads up on imported edibles; an expert from SGS offers advice on the particulars and the potential impact on processing firms worldwide.
Laser Application Technologies has received a thumbs up from the US Food and Drug Administration for its Natural Light Labeling system, designed to get rid of stick-on produce labels.
With food safety for at the forefront of producers’ minds, interest in detectable products for production zones has soared in recent years, according to UK-based company Detectamet.
3M’s Petrifilm Salmonella Express System has been validated through AOAC International as a First Action Official Method of Analysis (OMA) for the detection of Salmonella in a variety of food products.
Wolverine Packing Company is recalling 1.8 million pounds of ground beef products potentially contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS).
