Food Safety Magazine Editorial Team

FlexXray’s 2025 Foreign Material (FM) contamination survey reveals offers an industry-wide snapshot of how often foreign material contamination happens and how facilities are responding.

Hosted in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia by the Saudi Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and FAO, the Hack4SaferPlates Hackathon aimed to foster sustainable, tech-driven solutions to food safety challenges across the Near East and North Africa.

A recently completed study funded by the Center for Produce Safety (CPS) has provided new insights into Listeria monocytogenes growth, survival, and inactivation on pears during packing and in storage, and characterized microbial communities of yeasts, molds, and lactic acid bacteria.

In Australia, the Victorian Government intends to streamline state food safety regulation with the creation of Safe Food Victoria, a new agency. Additionally, the Australian Government is working on the Feeding Australia: National Food Security Strategy.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are carcinogenic compounds formed during cooking. A new Seoul Tech study has demonstrated the effectiveness of a streamlined analytical method to detect PAHs, which holds distinct advantages over conventional techniques.

The amendments improves oversight of bulk road transport of liquid foods and tightens requirements for liquid infant formula producers.

By integrating fat analysis with contaminant detection, Eagle Product Inspection’s enhanced FA3 Series supports USDA-FSIS regulatory compliance, enhances meat product integrity, and contributes to operational efficiency.

GEA InsightPartner EvoHDry is a digital condition monitoring tool developed to support operational reliability in facilities producing items like infant formula, cream, evaporated milk, condensed milk, and cheese.

In response to a petition submitted by the Meat Institute (formerly NAMI), USDA-FSIS has deleted an “unnecessary and confusing” reference to Moisture Protein Ratio from the “Jerky” entry in the FSIS Food Standards and Labeling Policy Book.

California Assembly Bill (AB) 1264 has passed the Senate, and now awaits final approval before being sent to the Governor. AB 1264 would define “ultra-processed foods” (UPFs), and would require “UPFs of concern” to be identified and phased out of schools.