On Monday afternoon at the 2022 International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting, representatives from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) provided U.S. regulatory updates on food safety.

This article explores the food safety challenges of the labor-heavy catering sector, including the pervasive lack of food safety culture and management commitment; the need for creative solutions in process monitoring for large facilities; how to build an effective training program for a catering facility; and how to handle customer complaints, including the importance of root cause analysis.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland recently published an audit report that focused on food businesses’ levels of compliance with food law as it relates to traceability and labeling for meat products.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently held its third annual Health Talks on Food Safety in honor of World Food Safety Day, which explored how industry and regulators can achieve “safer food, better health” by influencing consumer behavior, intentionally structuring food safety systems, and improving the supply chain.

Food safety has always been an important issue, but like workplace health and safety, its profile is growing and must be viewed as a business essential.

An interactive educational session with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday morning of the 2022 Food Safety Summit examined how advancing traceability and adopting new tracing technologies can help protect consumers from contaminated food.

The Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance's quality assurance plan, Identity Preserved, benefits global food manufacturers by meeting growing demand for transparency in the food production supply chain and by ensuring the origin, quality, consistency, and safety of food crops.

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.

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