The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) aims to explore how technology can enhance traceability solutions in the produce sector with a new working group.

Continuous intelligence can help transform your supply chain by adding critical context to your data and advancing traceability. In this exclusive eBook from Food Safety Magazine, you’ll learn how Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the food and beverage industry through advanced traceability and automation to improve yield, safety, quality, and compliance. Harnessing the power of continuous intelligence will help you better manage complex supply chains, increase your productivity, and drive growth in your operation.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service found that Salmonella caused 80 percent of pathogen and toxin violations from 2002–2019, based on a recent study of import refusals.

ThinkIQ's five-stage path to smart manufacturing leads to safer products and improved key metrics through transformational intelligence.

This article provides an overview of the status of the rules and regulations regarding nutritional labeling of food packaged at the global level and its impact on consumers' understanding. New and consumer-friendly proposed solutions (e.g., Nutri-Score, also known as the five-color nutrition label) are also presented. 

The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically disrupted the food supply. This article seeks to explain the transcendent lessons of this national emergency, with the hope that being aware of them will help national decision-makers better prepare for next time. Our food systems, like the larger supply chain, will be challenged in the future with new kinds of disruptions, making it essential that mistakes are not repeated and that proactive, correct solutions are discovered and preparations made now.

A European study suggests that climate change may worsen the impacts of microbial contamination of raw milk.

The cooling cubes are antimicrobial, reusable, and compostable, making them safer for a variety of cooling applications.

Supply chain is critical to any food safety program. Having full control and traceability of raw materials and end products is no longer an option, but rather a requirement. In the past two years, the pandemic has exposed new weaknesses and made visible the business risks posed by an unstable supply chain.

In our last column, we revisited some of the testing-related topics we have covered since the inception of Food Safety Insights. This article looks at a few of the other subjects that have made an impact on our markets in these past 5 years.