Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have discovered that plants may package commensal bacteria — bacteria that help the plants extract nutrients and defend against pathogen invasion — inside of seeds, thus ensuring that sprouting plants are colonized from the beginning.
A new brochure from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service aims to inform firms that have food service operations — such as retailers, restaurants, arenas and stadiums — about the agency’s mission and the role of the FSIS compliance officer who may conduct food safety/defense surveillance activities.
The United Fresh Produce Association (United Fresh) yesterday explained in detail how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recent changes to four proposed rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) will likely affect the produce industry. Key changes were made in the areas of water testing, compost use, and the definition of "farm," among others.
In this FDA Voice blog, officials Howard Sklamberg and Michael Taylor discuss FSMA and FDA's new orientation in light of last week's convictions in the trial of Peanut Corp. of America executive Stewart Parnell and his food broker brother, Michael Parnell.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 23 launched its 2014 Food Safety Challenge — a call to innovators from all disciplines to submit concepts that apply cutting-edge techniques to significantly improve the speed of detection methods for Salmonella in minimally processed fresh produce.
MenuTrinfo, is working with higher learning institutions through its AllerTrain U™ certification and training course to better accommodate students with food allergies and celiac disease.
Tuskegee University's inaugural George Washington Carver Lecture Series, to be held Oct. 30, will feature an impressive list of speakers from government, academia, and food companies such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, and ConAgra.
Romer Labs' new AgraStrip® Total Aflatoxin Quantitative WATEX test kit has successfully undergone verification of performance as defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA).
More than five years after hundreds of Americans got sick from eating salmonella-tainted peanut butter, the top executive at the Georgia plant where it was made was convicted Friday and faces decades of prison time in a rare food-poisoning trial..
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