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More than 1,700 food safety professionals including processors, distributors, growers, retailers, food service operators, regulators and academicians will gather to see the newest products and services available to keep the nation’s food supply safe and learn from industry leaders on the most important issues facing the industry. 

Earlier this year, ADM and Vland signed a joint development agreement under which the companies will share enzyme-producing strains as a basis for the development of feed enzymes. Products developed under the agreement will be commercialized by both companies.  

Greenbelt Greenhouse LTD of British Columbia, Canada is recalling all Greenbelt Microgreen products because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

FDA has not determined where in the supply chain the contamination occurred, and it is not the cause of the whole E.coli outbreak.

The expanded warning is based on information from newly reported illnesses in Alaska and it now includes whole heads and hearts of romaine lettuce, in addition to chopped romaine and salads and salad mixes containing romaine.

Using data compiled from records of the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service and the US Food and Drug Administration, the ERS reports food product recalls increased significantly from 2004 through 2013; recalls due to undeclared allergens nearly doubled in the decade.

Farmstead, what is dubbed as the nation's first artificial intelligence-powered digital micro-grocer, launched FreshAI, a new B2B platform that opens Farmstead's AI predictive analytics business management model to food industry companies across the food sector.

A New York raw milk cheese company, whose products were linked to a multi-state outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono), has been ordered by a federal court not to manufacture its ready-to-eat aged soft, semi-soft and hard cheeses until it complies with food safety regulations.

Leading controlled environment agriculture (CEA) growers BrightFarms, Irvington, N.Y.; AeroFarms, Newark, N.J.; and Little Leaf Farms, Devens, Mass., joined forces to establish what is dubbed as the first food safety group geared specifically toward establishing food safety standards among CEA produce brands.