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Merging Food Safety and Operational Excellence

Combining the best of both food safety and operations

June 20, 2021

To understand how these cultures are necessarily interwoven, it is important to review the underlying principles for operational excellence and why world-class companies seek to follow its principles.

Effects of the Pandemic on Personal Hygiene Practices: What’s Next?

Can we maintain high levels of hand hygiene postpandemic?

Angela Anandappa Ph.D.

June 20, 2021

Personal hygiene has long been a pillar of food safety. The pandemic not only created massive global awareness campaigns for handwashing but also provided food safety practitioners a platform for driving hygienic practices as the simple yet undisputed foundation of public health.

A Small Survey of Food Safety Practices by Frozen Vegetable Suppliers

A glimpse into the practices of the frozen-food supply chain

Michael Wood Ph.D.

June 20, 2021

Given the large number of contamination events involving the contamination of frozen vegetables with Listeria, are suppliers of these products able to control other harmful microorganisms from contaminating their products?

An Overview of Historic Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigations Linked to the Consumption of Sprouts: 2012–2020

Sprout production is inherently conducive to the survival and growth of pathogens

Michael C. Bazaco Ph.D. Stelios Viazis Ph.D. Donald C Obenhuber Ph.D. Patricia Homola Ph.D Fazila Shakir M.H.S. Angela Fields M.P.H.

June 17, 2021

This article outlines the identification of and responses to these outbreaks, the actions taken to prevent future outbreaks, the challenges encountered, possible contamination routes, and how current regulations may affect sprout safety.

Off-Premises Dining Safety in the Restaurant and Foodservice Business

Does the food industry’s responsibility stop at the customers’ front door?

Hal King Ph.D.

June 17, 2021

Food safety concerns of off-premises sales for restaurants are the food safety risks associated with food preparation and the additional risk of keeping the food safe after the food has been prepared.

How Is Climate Change Affecting the Safety of Our Food?

Keya Mukherjee Ph.D. Mia Rowan Vittorio Fattori Ph.D.

June 16, 2021

Even under the best of circumstances, agriculture faces myriad pressures. Exacerbated by climate change, these pressures are making agriculture a more vulnerable and challenging enterprise, impacting food production, processing, storage, and distribution. In other words, our entire food system is threatened by climate change.

Public-Private Partnerships for Safer Food

Gabor Molnar Ph.D. Marlynne Hopper

June 15, 2021

This article elaborates on public-private partnerships in food safety, what their added values are in enhancing food control systems, and provides an example how coregulatory approaches using information from voluntary third-party assurance programs can lead to improved food safety outcomes.

Another Food Safety Story: The Destruction of Contaminated Product

April 20, 2021

Food safety stories are essential to communicate lessons learned and share the practical experiences of food safety professionals to enhance the effectiveness of food safety training.

Food Safety Insights

Testing to Continue to Increase in 2021

Environmental monitoring and a focus on continuous improvement in sanitation drive increases in test volumes

Bob Ferguson

April 15, 2021

As food processors continue to recover from 2020, we wanted to find out more about their plans for 2021. One thing was clear: Testing—especially environmental monitoring—will continue to grow at a rapid pace.

Cover Story

An Opportunity to Reimagine: How the Pandemic Can Improve Our Global Food System

Jennifer van de Ligt, Ph.D.

April 15, 2021

More than a year after the start of the coronavirus pandemic forever changed our way of life and further strained our food system, we face greater challenges as a result of new vulnerabilities that have arisen.

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Management
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Merging Food Safety and Operational Excellence

Effects of the Pandemic on Personal Hygiene Practices: What’s Next?

A Small Survey of Food Safety Practices by Frozen Vegetable Suppliers

An Overview of Historic Foodborne Illness Outbreak Investigations Linked to the Consumption of Sprouts: 2012–2020

Off-Premises Dining Safety in the Restaurant and Foodservice Business

How Is Climate Change Affecting the Safety of Our Food?

Public-Private Partnerships for Safer Food

Another Food Safety Story: The Destruction of Contaminated Product

Testing to Continue to Increase in 2021

An Opportunity to Reimagine: How the Pandemic Can Improve Our Global Food System

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