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Summary: Canada’s historic meat recall provides lessons on the importance of a food safety culture for all those along the food supply chain.

The produce industry came together to reduce the audit burden that it had enabled by accepting and supporting a wide variety of food safety audit standards.  

There is work to do to help the public understand livestock production and the practices associated with it.  

Consumer awareness of all the issues, both pro and con regarding genetically modified organisms and their applications is often lacking.          

Various segments of the beef processing industry now test for the Top Six EHEC using test kits or services from a number of companies or commercial laboratories.

Continuous research and education are important components of Chiquita’s overall food safety program.  

The who, how, what, where, when and why to sample are critical to control the risks of biological contamination.           

Several methods have been developed to extract and test for total norovirus contamination in foods; however, there are no internationally recognized standard methods to date.

A quality botanical ingredient is one that uses the correct plant species and plant part, is unadulterated and safe for human consumption.

When we debate how animals should be treated, we are also debating the safety of our food.