Security

Food Safety Summit: Food Fraud Prevention – Introduction, Implementation, and Management

parkere@bnpmedia.com (Liz Parker) — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:00:00 -0400

The Food Safety Summit continued on Wednesday, October 21, with a session entitled “Food Fraud Prevention – Introduction, Implementation, and Management.”

Preventing food fraud and adulteration

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:00:00 -0400

Food fraud is not a new trend. In fact, there were laws written nearly 2,000 years ago in Rome against adulterating wine.

Food defense has become a critical aspect of food safety audits

rickstier4@aol.com (Richard F. Stier, M.S.) — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 09:00:00 -0500

Food defense is now an integral element in almost all third-party audit schemes, in particular ones from the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

Is your facility food safe and defensible?

labsw@bnpmedia.com (Wayne Labs) — Wed, 29 May 2019 10:00:00 -0400

Unless your facility is a USDA shop, then it most likely falls under FSMA regulations, which for the vast majority of processors is the law of the land. If you haven’t yet been visited by FDA for an audit, it is past time to get ready for that inevitable moment. I asked Ib Elandaloussi (CAL), Food and Consumer Products Group with Burns and McDonnell to talk briefly about designing facility solutions to meet FSMA rules.

Processors must soon comply with FSMA's rule to try to stop intentional adulteration

Wed, 22 May 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Under the Intentional Adulteration rule, domestic and foreign food facilities are required to complete and maintain a written food defense plan that assesses their potential vulnerabilities to deliberate contamination where the intent is to cause wide-scale public health harm.

Cooper Farms opens new truck sanitization location

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 09:00:00 -0400

Cooper Farms has announced the opening of their new biosecurity truck wash location in Ashley, Indiana.

Preliminary program set for IAFP 2019

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 09:00:00 -0400

The International Association for Food Protection set the Preliminary Program for IAFP 2019 – the Association’s Annual Meeting, July 21–24 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Developing an effective Food Defense Program (FDP)

stevens@foodindustrycounsel.com (Shawn Stevens) — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500

FSIS encourages establishments to voluntarily adopt and implement a Food Defense Plan (FDP), and to conduct training and exercises to ensure preparedness.

Exclusive interview: Chromatic Technologies Inc. on product tampering

Fri, 07 Dec 2018 09:00:00 -0500

Food Safety Strategies recently was able to speak with Patrick Edson, chief marketing officer for CTI (Chromatic Technologies Inc).

How to make e-discovery a standard business process

bschrader@biaprotect.com (Brian Schrader) — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:00:00 -0400

By establishing a standard e-discovery plan, companies can avoid these headaches and minimize the risk, all while reducing interruptions and costs.

Organic Trade Association kicks off pilot project to deter organic fraud

Mon, 04 Jun 2018 07:01:00 -0400

The Organic Trade Association (OTA), Washington, D.C., kicked off of a groundbreaking pilot project to prevent and detect fraud in the global organic system.

Food security: Are you ready for the next cyberattack?

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:47:00 -0400

Although you might not think of the meat and poultry industries as juicy targets for cyber criminals, every company is a potential victim. Even yours.

Combating the growth of fake food

info@pmmi.org (Maria Ferrante) — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:22:00 -0500

As brand manufacturers continue to source from an ever-growing list of ingredients and suppliers, food is now the fourth most valuable counterfeit market, according to the 2016 Brand Protection and Product Traceability Market Research Report.

How food and beverage processors can fight cyberattacks

labsw@bnpmedia.com (Wayne Labs) — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 08:46:00 -0500

Knowledge of how attacks occur, new tools coming on the scene, and long-term investments in cybersecurity can all help processors stand a better chance of keeping their plants safely up and running.

New technique detects impurities in ground beef within minutes

Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:00:00 -0500

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, have found a better way to identify unwanted animal products in ground beef.

How barcodes can help fight food fraud

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:16:00 -0400

Within the layered approach to brand protection are overt technologies — barcodes, holograms, watermarks, embossing and etching — and covert technologies — taggants, UV, infrared and fluorescent inks, Smart technology and radio frequency identification (RFID).

External, insider threats must remain top defense priorities for western food corporations

nortora@auburn.edu (Robert A. Norton Ph.D.) — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 12:00:00 -0400

The cold food industry must pay special attention to the evolving security requirements related to critical assets, starting first with limiting access to refrigeration plant areas.

Study: Safer meat requires reducing risks where food animals are raised

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:03:00 -0400

Wider use of evidence-based food safety interventions on farms and feedlots would significantly reduce the risk of people getting sick from contaminated meat and poultry, according to a report released The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia.

Technology intervenes on pre-harvest interventions

mpgrini03@yahoo.com (Megan Pellegrini) — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:24:00 -0400

Consumers increasingly demand antibiotic-free meat and poultry. So how do processors prevent contamination during the pre-harvest stage without using this common antimicrobial?