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Shawn Stevens

Shawn Stevens

Shawn Stevens is the founding member of Food Industry Counsel LLC, a law firm formed in 2014 to represent the food industry exclusively in regulatory and other matters involving food safety and quality. Contact Stevens at (920) 698-2561 or stevens@foodindustrycounsel.com, or visit his Web site, www.foodindustrycounsel.com.

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Commentary | Fight for Food Safety

'Slam'-onella: punches likely to keep coming

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
November 4, 2020

No, the title of this column does not contain a typo. Under the right circumstances, most of which are unpredictable, Salmonella can give you a real body slam.


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Commentary | Fight for Food Safety

COVID-19 aftermath: Come together, don't fall apart

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
August 3, 2020

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the United States, the meat industry increasingly faces the potential of pandemic-related economic and legal threats.


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Commentary | Fight for Food Safety

Will expanded E. coli sampling be good for consumers?

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
July 3, 2020
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently announced plans to plans to significantly expand its routine verification testing for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STECs), which includes the six non-O157 strains O26, O45, O103, O111, O121 and O145.
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Weighing in on Tyson's inspection proposal

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
September 17, 2019
Numerous stories have been published in recent weeks relating to a waiver request submitted by Tyson Foods that proposes to reduce the number of inspectors in its facility.
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Fight for Food Safety
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Developing an effective Food Defense Program (FDP)

Defending against the unthinkable
Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
March 5, 2019
FSIS encourages establishments to voluntarily adopt and implement a Food Defense Plan (FDP), and to conduct training and exercises to ensure preparedness.
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Fight for Food Safety

Reviewing 2018's USDA recalls

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
February 15, 2019
At presstime in mid-December 2018, there had been 120 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recalls in 2018, collectively totaling approximately 25.3 million pounds of product.
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Food Safety Summit

Food Safety Summit: How to Prepare for, Manage and Survive a High-Profile Food Safety Crisis

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
February 1, 2019

This open interactive forum will help prepare the food safety professional on the best practices to survive a high-profile crisis.


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Time to talk… Salmonella

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
December 28, 2018

As we look back at this year’s Thanksgiving, which is typically the time to talk turkey, yet another Salmonella outbreak made headlines. And this time, turkey was the source.


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Salmonella outbreak: a harbinger of changes?

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
December 6, 2018

An Arizona-based meat producer recently announced a recall of 6.9 million pounds of various raw, non-intact beef products because of possible contamination with Salmonella Newport — by far the largest beef recall in recent history, and the largest for Salmonella in beef.


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Fight for Food Safety

Food-safety investments may be paying off

Shawn Stevens
Shawn Stevens
September 20, 2018
Despite the well-known problems this year, a careful analysis of the data reveals that there is much for the meat industry to be proud of.
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