The Penn State Extension is offering two educational events for the food industry in April 2024: a free webinar on April 9 about third-party audits for dairy processors, and an in-person workshop on April 29 in Pennsylvania about small-scale commercial canning.
Designated by the European Commission, Denmark and Sweden have formed a public health consortium to jointly establish an EU reference laboratory or antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which will contribute to diagnostics and infection preparedness.
Addressing concerns around brominated flame retardants in the environment and food, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is updating its decade-old risk assessments on different families of the chemicals. EFSA has launched a public consultation regarding the draft scientific opinion on the update of the risk assessment of tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA) and its derivatives in food.
A study of food safety inspections performed in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, and the U.S. has identified and described a common approach across countries.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Robert Manning, recall management expert, author, and CEO of Liquid, about how to prevent, prepare for, and recover from food product recalls.
Delivering safe and high-quality food must be a top priority for everyone involved in the food industry, from food manufacturers and suppliers to grocery stores and restaurants, and from CEOs and CFOs to manufacturing plant workers. Food manufacturers can eliminate the risk of food contamination anywhere along the supply chain by creating a culture of food safety.
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) are warning that the shortage of veterinary professionals delivering food safety inspections in Great Britain poses a threat to public and animal health.
The FAO/WHO Joint Expert Meetings on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) convened to review the most recent scientific literature regarding the control of Campylobacter on chicken meat. The experts emphasized the importance of a multi-hurdle approach in production and processing.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Dr. Jason Richardson, Vice President of Global Quality and Food Safety at The Coca-Cola Company, for a discussion about his work as a food safety business leader to refresh and reframe food safety culture to drive enterprise-wide optimization and growth.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Alliance for Food Safety will convene for its inception meeting in May. The Alliance is intended to address target goals for foodborne disease surveillance capacity-building set forth in the WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022–2030.
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