With so much confusion over the FDA’s FSMA food traceability requirements, companies need to begin considering standardization. This is especially true for companies with long supplier lines.
This series examines food safety as business infrastructure: the business decisions, governance structures, and operational conditions that determine whether technical food safety systems can hold under production pressure. The first three articles followed the record inward—from the corrective-action log, through the cost of repetition, to what growth asks a system to carry. This article follows that same operational reality outward.
By bringing together complementary strengths, Mérieux NutriSciences will provide customers with broader service offerings and enhanced regulatory support.
Fungal contamination threatens global cereal production with severe health and economic consequences. Accurate testing at grain receiving lines serves as the critical first defense against mycotoxin infiltration.
Food safety audit failures repeat year after year because they’re behavior problems, not protocol problems. The compliance gaps auditors document result from daily habits that erode under production pressure and unsupervised moments. Facilities that break the cycle invest in training that builds compliant behaviors through regular on-the-job practice, not periodic knowledge events.
Dr. Justin Ransom, administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will present at this year’s Food Safety Consortium Conference October 21-23 in Washington DC along side, Dr. Donald A. Prater, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Food, FDA.
New award will recognize food and beverage organizations applying innovative technology to strengthen food safety performance
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.
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.
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.
