Jorge Hernandez, VP of Quality Assurance at The Wendy’s Company, shares his views on the future of food safety, what inspectors need to understand about the food industry and why developing relationships and trust is essential to a safer food system.
Checklists can serve as a crutch or a divining rod for continual improvement. In this article, we look at the role of checklists, how to develop them, and how to measure their success or failure in ensuring food safety.
The number of food alerts related to plant toxins, including pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) and tropane alkaloids (TAs), is increasing. Fortunately, new liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry testing methods enable more accurate and efficient detection.
The FDA is withdrawing a 2022 guidance document titled Questions and Answers Regarding Channels of Trade Policy for Human Food Commodities with Chlorpyrifos Residues: Guidance for Industry, following a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to vacate, or void, an EPA final rule that revoked all tolerances for the pesticide chemical chlorpyrifos.
The FDA has launched a new webpage listing food-related regulations that it plans to publish by October 2024. The agency has also added five new guidances that it expects to publish by December 2024.
In an increasingly global world, supplier qualification systems help ensure food safety and increase diversity in the supply chain while helping companies manage disruptions and develop stronger long-term relationships with their suppliers, wherever they are located.
“Since developing NutriCalc 30 years ago, it has become the industry standard in nutrition labeling across the globe at companies both large and small. Our acquisition by TraceGains fuels the development of future innovations to the product and provides an immediate benefit to customers today by linking them to a robust ingredient marketplace and streamlining their processes.”
The Remote Grading Pilot for Beef allows a USDA grader to assess beef carcass characteristics and assign the official quality grade from a remote location, reducing costs and location as barriers to participation in voluntary grading services. The pilot program is part of USDA’s efforts to increase competition in agricultural markets and create a fairer playing field for small- and mid-size farmers and ranchers.
A real-world demonstration presented at the 2023 American Public Health Association conference revealed how the use of visual text analytics and generative AI can speed analysis of inspection reports to help federal and state agencies pinpoint high risk areas. Tom Sabo, Principal Solutions Architect at SAS, shares the findings of the demonstration and discusses how these tools can be used to reduce workloads while improving food safety.
Novolyze capped off 2023 with new board member, Laurent Vernerey, and a New World Report Most Innovative Food Safety and Quality Software Company award.
