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In 2026, Penn State University will host a series of three-day, in-person short courses designed for food safety and quality assurance professionals, food inspectors, plant managers, sanitarians, and food engineers, overing food microbiology, food science fundamentals, sanitation, and FSMA compliance.

The Food Production Solutions Association (FPSA) will introduce two leadership development programs in 2026 aimed at addressing workforce gaps in the food production and manufacturing sectors.

A study used machine learning to analyze WGS data for Salmonella isolates from ten European nations. The findings reveal that poultry and pigs remain the dominant sources of human salmonellosis. Notable cross-border transmission underscores the need for internationally harmonized control strategies.

This article discusses how an operation should develop, document, implement, and maintain a program to properly manage the many chemicals that are used in food processing.

The third installment of the second FDA-Stop Foodborne Illness Food Safety Culture Webinar Series, titled, “Measure the Power of Declared Values,” will be held on December 17.

Monitoring impurities in foods is an important tool for protecting vulnerable populations. However, as consumers encounter more reports of detectable impurities in everyday foods, concern is likely to grow unless these findings are clearly communicated in the context of potential health risk. 

This article presents data on food fraud in global supply chains and discusses how to identify supply chain vulnerabilities by conducting a food fraud vulnerability assessment.

This article discusses how investment in food safety is not only good business practice—it can also be a boon to a company's bottom line.

This article looks at how the movement of people and equipment in a food processing plant affects food safety risks and how these risks can be successfully managed.

To support the work of the Joint Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA), FAO/WHO are seeking experts and data on the use of omics-based technologies for pathogen detection, outbreak root cause analyses, surveillance, food process monitoring programs, and microbiological risk assessments.