Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) has published an updated FSIS Guideline for Residue Prevention, replacing the 2013 version.

June 26, 2024 commemorates 50 years since the monumental debut of the first Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode scan. While the UPC has endured for 50 years, new two-dimensional (2D) barcodes, such as QR codes powered by GS1, are emerging on product packaging with a range of benefits.

The Move to -15 °C—an industry effort to lower frozen food storage and transportation temperature standards—is gaining steam. The group says a 3 °C reduction would significantly increase environmental sustainability without compromising food safety.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent a warning letter to Bimbo Bakeries USA Inc. for listing “contains” statements for major food allergens on the labels of products that do not actually contain the listed allergens. The warning letter follows an FDA statement denouncing a trend of food manufacturers attempting to circumvent allergen cross-contamination requirements by exploiting loopholes around “may contain” label statements.

A coalition of key food industry stakeholder groups and consumer protection organizations has written a letter urging Congress to reject two bills that would undermine the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) FSMA 204, also known as the Food Traceability Final Rule.

Primerdesign recently launched its new genesig® Easy_oys Detection Kit for Norovirus in oysters, a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assay capable of producing results onsite in as little as four hours.

Kerry recently celebrated the opening of a new BSL-2-certified Food Protection and Preservation Lab at the company’s Beloit Innovation Center in in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Spectacular Labs Inc. and the Canadian Center for Meat Innovation and Technology (CMIT) have entered an early access agreement in which Canadian meat and poultry producers will be able to use the Spectacular OneTouch platform to validate assay performance and demonstrate its intuitive workflow.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published an outline of its research priorities regarding the dairy food safety implications of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1.

In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Caroline Smith DeWaal, J.D. and Richard Pluke, Ph.D., who discuss their work to improve food safety in traditional markets under the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition’s (GAIN’s) five-year EatSafe Initiative.