A recent study found the majority of vegan meat and dairy alternatives available in England to be of satisfactory microbiological quality. Tofu from one producer had a Listeria problem.
A Purdue University professor has been awarded $10 million in funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to extend the work of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL) for another five years.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to Johanna Velez, Vice President of Quality Assurance for Monin Americas, about how she encourages modernization, solves non-conformances, upholds an “Excellent” food safety rating, and reinforces a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration. Bob Ferguson also discusses his latest “Food Safety Insights” column on processors' adoption of testing technologies at the international level.
Between 2017 and 2019, Canadian public health laboratories transitioned to whole genome sequencing (WGS) for foodborne illness outbreak surveillance. A recent study shows the positive impact of this transition of national outbreak detection and response for important foodborne pathogens.
A recent study of salmon sold at Seattle, Washington grocery stores and sushi restaurants found 18 percent of samples to be mislabeled overall, with one-third of “wild-caught” salmon sold at sushi establishments being mislabeled.
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was investigating a grower of interest in Washington state, the agency has been unable to definitively implicate a grower in the Escherichia coli outbreak linked to onions supplied by Taylor Farms and served at McDonald’s.
The Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced the return of their joint Food Safety Culture webinar series, kicking off in January 2025.
In the debut installment of the Food Safety Five Newsreel, we discuss an ongoing multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli infections linked to onions served at McDonald’s restaurants. The episode also takes a look at legislation passed in California that marks the country’s first mandatory food date labeling reforms.
A new partnership between Trace Register and Foa and Son International Insurance Brokers provides incentive for the seafood industry to receive product contamination and recall insurance by applying half of insurance premiums toward Trace Register seafood traceability subscription costs.
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