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Listeria

Listeria – From the Ground Up. How to Identify, Find, and Eradicate the Bugger

By Bob Lijana

An introduction to a series of articles on the detection, mitigation and control of Listeria in Food Plants  

Featured Articles

December 11, 2025

Agentic AI will transform the food and beverage sector but it isn’t ready for it

Ideagen's CEO explains why binary outcomes and high stakes make compliance ideal for autonomous AI

December 4, 2025
Cows, dairy, farms

Pasteurization of milk is an Effective Preventive Measure against Avian Influenza

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Repeated oral exposure to H5N1 influenza virus in pasteurized milk does not cause adverse responses to subsequent influenza infection

December 4, 2025
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FDA Expands Artificial Intelligence Capabilities with Agentic AI Deployment

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Agentic AI deployment will enable FDA staff to further advance the use of AI to assist with more complex tasks, such as meeting management, pre-market reviews, review validation, post-market surveillance, inspections and compliance and administrative functions.

December 4, 2025

The Safest Food Might Be Made in a Factory With No People

By Ellie Gabel

Humans introduce many contaminants into food manufacturing facilities. If robotics took over, safety would increase. However, stakeholders must feel inspired to balance the workforce with automation to achieve peak results.

December 4, 2025

The Big Cheese Recall

Great Lakes Cheese company is recalling over 1.5 million bags of shredded cheese, including mozzarella, Italian-style, and pizza-style blends, sold under different brand names due to possible metal fragments in the products.

November 25, 2025

NY State Exec Bruce Blakeman and Long Island families lead push to add gluten warnings on all restaurant menus, packaged foods

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is advocating for gluten labels to be added to all food packaging and restaurant menus.

November 25, 2025

Jay Hardy, Founder of Hardy Diagnostics, Retires

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Jay started Hardy Diagnostics in 1980 with what began as a small lab in Santa Barbara has grown into an employee-owned company serving customers around the world.

November 25, 2025
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low in 2025

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Inspections began to decline in early 2025, after 65% of the staff in the FDA divisions responsible for coordinating travel and budgets left or were fired in the name of government efficiency. Because of staff reductions, investigators suddenly had to book their own flights and hotels, obtain diplomatic passports and visas, and coordinate with foreign authorities. While the rate of foreign inspections had significantly decreased, domestic inspections have continued almost uninterrupted.

November 20, 2025

Eagle Protect Files Citizen Petition Urging FDA to Ban Vinyl Gloves in U.S. Food Handling

The petition references research estimating that endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure costs the U.S. over $340 billion annually in healthcare impacts. Vinyl gloves, while appearing cheaper, increase contamination risk, recall liability and waste.

November 20, 2025
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SQF Edition 10 Delayed

SQF Edition 10 has been delayed due to an extension in the GFSI benchmarking application timeline, which now runs through March 2026. The new edition emphasizes food safety culture, change management, and environmental monitoring, and it consolidates documentation requirements to create a more proactive and holistic approach to food safety. 

Columns

November 6, 2025
Beltway Beat

Politics has no place in the USDA’s mission or leadership

By Rick Biros
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"Government departments and agencies serve all citizens - republicans and democrats. This type of partisan rhetoric undermines trust in government and may violate the law." Sandy Eskin, former Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety at USDA

November 2, 2025
Women in Food Safety

What Burger King’s Breakfast Menu Teaches Us About Inclusive Marketing

By Kim Ring

Kelly McDonald, 4X best-selling author has studied over the course of her career as a leading expert in marketing, sales, consumer trends and customer experience. McDonald explores practical strategies for marketing to audiences who may not think, look, or act like you, touching on how empathy, cultural intelligence, and inclusive communication can break down barriers and build trust.

October 15, 2025
Women in Food Safety

Hard Truths & Smart Moves: A Veteran’s Guide for Women in Food Safety

By Jill Hoffman, Kim Ring

Whether you're just stepping into the food safety field or you're years into your career, the following hard truths and smart moves are worth holding onto.

October 3, 2025
FST Soapbox

Time for a Revolution in Risk Analysis in Food Safety: Toward a Harmonized, Unified Model

By Shahram Ajamian
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The food industry is at a turning point. It is time to move past fragmented assessments and toward a harmonized risk model that combines science, data, governance, and human behavior. By doing this, we can strengthen resilience, protect public health, and build the trust on which our food system depends.

September 23, 2025
FST Soapbox

Learn, Network and Develop: Join Me at the Food Safety Consortium!

By Sanjay Gummalla, Ph.D.

Events like the Food Safety Consortium are more than a conference, they are platforms for building a stronger network of professionals and advancing food safety culture across our industry. You’ll have the chance to connect with regulators, suppliers, QA leaders, and peers who face the same challenges you do, and return to your company with better understanding, innovative tools and new ideas that make a difference.

September 18, 2025
Ask The Expert

Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Advancing Integration in the U.S. Food Protection System

By Rick Biros
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From food safety and quality to food defense, integrity, and physical and digital security, the system continues to operate in silos. More than ever, there is the need for a unified, risk-based U.S. food protection system.

Upcoming FST Events & Webinars

December 2, 2025 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Link between Food Safety and Cybersecurity Webinar

As the food industry becomes increasingly digitalized, the intersection of food safety and cybersecurity is no longer a future concern—it’s a present-day priority. This forward-thinking webinar brings together two essential domains to explore how cyber threats can directly impact food safety, and what proactive steps industry professionals can take to mitigate risk.

December 18, 2025 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
GFSI: Preparing for the Future

The webinar will explore the next chapter of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), offering insights into emerging priorities, strategic shifts, and the technologies shaping tomorrow’s food safety landscape. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how GFSI is adapting to meet the challenges of a dynamic global supply chain, including climate-related risks, digital traceability, and evolving regulatory expectations. The session will highlight key updates to benchmarking requirements, the role of third-party certification, and how GFSI is working to harmonize standards across regions while maintaining flexibility for innovation.

April 20, 2026 – 1:00 pm – April 22, 2026 – 12:00 pm
Food Safety Hazards Conference

This conference will focus on the detection, mitigation, control and regulations of food safety hazards through technology, best practices and data analytics. The Hazards include Listeria, e-Coli, Salmonella, Allergens, Chemicals and Foreign Matter. The conference scope includes both human and pet foods. Food Safety Tech invites you to submit abstracts for consideration for the 2026 Food Safety Hazards Conference, April 20-22, 2026 in St. Louis, MO. Abstract Submission Deadline is Friday, December 12, 2025. The link connects you to the Abstract Submission Form

October 18, 2026 – October 20, 2026
Food Safety Consortium Conference

Food Safety Tech and the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) are excited to announce that the 2025 Food Safety Consortium will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia, from October 19-21. The 2025 event will focus on the convergence of policy, science, and best practices. With the conference being held near Washington, D.C., this year will place a renewed emphasis on policy discussions, reflecting the growing need to address regulatory and legislative issues. The program will also prioritize the sharing of best practices, offering attendees the chance to learn from one another and engage in collaborative problem-solving on hot-button issues.

On Demand Events & Webinars

October 29, 2025 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Frustrated with audit “repeats”? Are you tired of saying “But we fixed that!!!”?
September 10, 2025 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Innovating for Unmatched Roach Control in Every Environment
April 23, 2025 – 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Food Safety Supply Chain Management Virtual Conference
March 5, 2025
Food Safety and Risk Management and the role of an often overlooked stakeholder, your Insurance Company
December 18, 2024 – 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere! Episode 3 Recording: Partnership for Food Traceability









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