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Foodservice & Retail

Featured Articles

August 18, 2026

Food Safety Tech Launches 2026 Excellence Award Recognizing Technology That Delivers Measurable Food Safety Improvements

By Candace Taylor

New award will recognize food and beverage organizations applying innovative technology to strengthen food safety performance

August 17, 2026

Food Safety Tech Launches FSTR – Food Safety Tech Research to Bring Independent Benchmark Intelligence to the Food Industry

By Candace Taylor

FSTR is being launched in conjunction with its anchor research study: The Food Safety Digital Maturity Benchmark, giving food manufacturers an independent way to measure the impacts of digital transformation, technology adoption, and operational performance. The study findings will debut at the 15th Anniversary Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo, October 21-23, in Washington DC.

August 10, 2026

Beyond the Survey: What Supplier Compliance Behavior Reveals About Food Safety Culture — Before It Becomes a Recall

By Santoshi Muriki

Most food safety culture assessments still lean on annual surveys and self-reported audit responses — snapshots of what people say, taken once or twice a year. Supplier compliance behavior tells a more current story: how fast a vendor answers a document request, how often the same corrective action keeps coming back, and how long a supplier sits in an at-risk tier before anything changes. This article lays out a practical way to read that behavior as a culture signal, based on firsthand work redesigning a risk-tiered supplier verification system across a network of more than 1,000 suppliers.

August 10, 2026
Scanning electron micrograph shows a colony of Salmonella typhimurium bacteria. Photo courtesy of CDC, Janice Haney Carr

Taylor Fresh Foods Recalls Products Made with Jalapeno Peppers Due to Potential Salmonella Contamination

Coast Citrus Distributors is voluntarily recalling fresh jalapeños due to potential Salmonella contamination, Taylor Fresh Foods is recalling finished products containing jalapeños subject to this recall according to a notification on FDA's website.

July 31, 2026
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The FDA is implementing a major reorganization plan called “Simple Reform” on October 1, 2026

By Food Safety Tech Staff, Rick Biros

The FDA is implementing a major reorganization plan called “Simple Reform” on October 1, 2026, which shifts field inspectors from specialized product roles back to generalist investigators and centralizes administrative functions. The food and beverage industry should expect a shift in audit dynamics, meaning audits will likely focus less on highly specific, niche technical processes and more on foundational, broad-spectrum quality systems. Dr. Stephen Ostroff and Frank Yiannas, both former Deputy Commissioners at FDA offer their opinions on Simple Reform.

July 20, 2026
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FDA Backpedals on Cyclospora Investigation With False Postive Announcement and Apologizes to Taylor Farms

By Food Safety Tech Staff

The sample of lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico produced a false postive test result.

July 20, 2026

Lettuce is Not The Only Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Being Investigated

By Food Safety Tech Staff

New York City health officials traced a much smaller cyclosporiasis outbreak in April, one of multiple case clusters the city’s epidemiologists have pursued this year, led to cilantro.

July 16, 2026

Why Automated Data Management is the Foundation of Preventative Food Safety Testing

By Emily Newton

Raw food safety data is most valuable when paired with actionable insights. By replacing manual workflows with automated software, food manufacturers can unlock real-time trend analysis and identify contamination hot spots before they spread.

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Columns

August 11, 2026
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Normalization of Deviance: The Real Lesson of This Summer’s Cyclospora Outbreak

By Steve Ardagh
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The term, Normalization of Deviance has since become standard vocabulary in aviation safety, nuclear safety, and patient safety literature, precisely because the pattern keeps recurring: a known risk, documented, unresolved, tolerated because the bad outcome hasn't happened yet… until the day it does.

March 16, 2026
Beltway Beat

Achieving Goals: Integrating the Fragmented United States Federal Food Safety System into a Food Protection System

By Allen R. Sayler, Benjamin J. Reading, Ph.D., Jason Bashura, MPH, R.S., Mehrdad Tajkarimi, DVM, MPVM, Ph.D.

The white paper, argues that the United States' fragmented federal food safety system—split across more than 15 agencies (primarily FDA and USDA FSIS), 30+ laws, and numerous interagency agreements—creates inefficiencies, duplication, regulatory gaps, and preventable public health harms. Advocating for a unified federal food protection entity integrating safety, defense, authenticity, and infrastructure protection, the authors propose five core reform directives and four prime outcomes: better public health protection, reduced burdens, enhanced resilience against threats, and a modern, science/risk-based 21st-century system.

December 31, 2025
Ask The Expert

Summary of the Six Article Series on Listeria in Food Plants

By Bob Lijana
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Over the past six months we have published a series of articles on many practical aspects of managing Listeria in Food Plants. This last article is a summary along with links to each of article in the series.

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

September 18, 2025
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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

September 17, 2026 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Effective Change Management (CM) for a strong Food Safety Management System (FSMS)

Effective change management is one of the most critical and most overlooked elements of a strong Food Safety Management System (FSMS). In the webinar we will be outlining the foundational principles that every organization must follow to ensure that changes to products, processes, equipment, materials, or personnel do not compromise food safety. This webinar will explore those core principles and connect them to today’s regulatory and industry expectations.

October 21, 2026 – October 23, 2026
Food Safety Consortium Conference

Plan to attend the Food Safety Consortium Conference in Washington DC. This year's program will include the rise of AI in food safety and quality management, risk management and FSMA 15 years, later, where is food safety going? The event will focus on the convergence of policy, science, and best practices. With the conference being held near Washington, D.C., the program continues to 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

May 28, 2026 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
FoodChain ID – The Packaging Decisions You Make Today Will Set Your EPR Costs Tomorrow: Data, Specs, and Eco-Modulation
May 5, 2026 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Food Safety Audits: Horror Stories and Lessons Learned
April 15, 2026 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Visibility Gap: Why Fragmented Food Safety Systems Leave You Exposed
April 8, 2026 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Touchless, Continuous Pathogen Control: Introducing DHP®, a Novel Method for Enhancing Sanitation Programs
March 26, 2026 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Foreign Material Contamination: How CT Inspection Unlocks New Visibility






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