Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute for Food Safety and Health (IIT IFSH) announced earlier this week that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted an IFSH process filing for applying a Pressure Enhanced Sterilization (PES) processing technology for the commercial production of complex particulate-bearing shelf-stable low acid foods.
As the debate regarding the necessity of country-of-origin labels for meat continues, researchers at the University of Arkansas have discovered that consumer perceptions are highly influenced by such labels.
New research published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology--a scientific journal--says that produce farmers should wait until 24 hours after rain or irrigation to harvest their crops.
Sysco Corporation announced that it has terminated its merger agreement with US Foods, days after the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., granted the Federal Trade Commission's request for a preliminary injunction to block the proposed Sysco-US Foods merger.
At the Food Safety and Manufacturing Summit today in Dallas, TX, Acting Associate Attorney General Stuart Delery--third in line at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)--will speak about some of the legal duties manufacturers and distributors have to ensure that they sell safe foods.