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Allergens

How Can US Food Businesses Navigate Labeling Regulations While Ensuring Compliance?

By Fred Whipp
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The FASTER Act recognizes and highlights the importance of strict quality control, regulating the accurate labeling of products and mitigating cross-contamination in manufacturing and production facilities. With the right technology and systems in place, equipping businesses with the necessary tools, the task at hand becomes significantly more manageable.

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USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service Announces Leadership Changes

By Food Safety Tech Staff
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Dr. Denise Eblen, currently FSIS’ Assistant Administrator for the Office of Public Health Science, has been named agency Administrator. Paul Kiecker will take on the role of Assistant Administrator in the Office of Investigation, Enforcement and Audit, where he will apply his deep experience with the agency and his leadership capabilities to head FSIS’s investigation, enforcement, and audit functions.

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Lettuce

Traceability in Agriculture Labeling

By Jenna Wagner
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As consumer demand for transparency continues to grow, agricultural businesses must adapt by implementing traceability systems. Labels play a large part in this process, and with the right label design software, businesses can create, manage, and track labels that meet the highest standards of safety, compliance, and consumer trust.

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Trump Picks RFK Jr. as Health Secretary. What can the food industry expect?

By Food Safety Tech Staff, Rick Biros
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Kennedy says the public health establishment is too focused on infectious diseases and wants to redirect resources toward issues he characterizes as the chronic disease epidemic, including obesity, diabetes, autism and mental illnesses. He blames them on corporations including food companies for producing highly processed, non-nutritious food using harmful pesticides and additives.

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