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Featured Articles

August 18, 2026

Dr. Justin Ransom, Administrator, USDA’s FSIS to present at the Food Safety Consortium Conference, Oct.21-23, in Washington DC

By Food Safety Tech Staff

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.

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

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announces two significant actions on GRAS and UPFs

By Food Safety Tech Staff

HHS proposed a rule requiring manufacturers to notify the FDA when concluding that the use of a substance added to human or animal food is GRAS and, alongside the USDA, submitted for final review the federal government’s first proposed definition of ultra-processed foods (UPFs). Critics complain that while the GRAS rule would require manufacturers to notify the FDA when they determine a new food substance is GRAS, manufacturers would still self-determine that safety conclusion themselves. Substances introduced into the market before the regulations go into effect, would be eligible for a separate, time-limited streamlined submission pathway.

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 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.

July 16, 2026

FDA Calls on Infant Formula Industry to Better Safeguard Against Contaminants Introduced through their Supply Chain

By Food Safety Tech Staff

FDA sent a letter to the infant formula industry and their supply chain partners highlighting multiple recent public health events where risks were introduced through the supply chain and to call for increased vigilance by industry to ensure the safety of ingredients and finished infant formula products.

July 16, 2026

Food Safety as Business Infrastructure Series (Article 3 of 5): Can your system absorb growth without losing control?

By Azure Edwards, M.S.

Fifteen years of preventive controls investment has produced a record detailed enough to answer a question most operations confront only under pressure: not whether a system performs, but whether it can carry what growth asks of it. Rising volume, added complexity, new customers, and shifting requirements all impact the same structure, and they reveal whether the structure was built to absorb them, or whether people have been absorbing the difference on its behalf. This five-part series examines food safety through the business realities leaders already navigate: profitability, risk, growth, brand trust, and organizational function.

July 8, 2026

Food Safety Consortium | Business Operational Opportunity

Food safety is more than compliance. Rick Biros shares why the Food Safety Consortium is a must attend event for FSQA professionals focused on operational excellence and business performance.

July 7, 2026

Food Safety Consortium | Save the Date

When food safety professionals come together, the whole industry gains. Coming soon, the 15th Anniversary Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo in Washington, DC, from October 21-23. Save the Date!

July 7, 2026

Food Safety Consortium | Food Safety Matters

Food Safety Matters. But what does that really mean in today's rapidly changing industry? The real opportunity is building food safety programs that reduce risk, improve operations, and strengthen the business case for investment.

June 27, 2026
Farming, sustainability

Trump wants to Reduce Pesticides but Glyphosate is ok

By Food Safety Tech Staff

On the same day the SCOTUS sided with the Trump administration and the maker of the weedkiller Roundup, Trump issued an executive order aimed at reducing pesticides in the food supply and studying the health risks they pose but with no new federal funding, and it does not call for new regulations or legislation.

June 17, 2026

Food Safety Consortium | Don’t Eat Poop

In this podcast with Don't Eat Poop, Rick Biros discusses why the food served at the Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo is held to the same high standards as the event's focus on technology, innovation, policy, and practical food safety solutions.

May 27, 2026

A Greenpeace Study finds microplastics in baby food pouches

By Food Safety Tech Staff

New investigation is the first to trace microplastics and plastic chemicals from plastic packaging into baby food. The testing commissioned by Greenpeace International in 2025 found plastic particles in the baby food products of two global consumer goods companies – Danone and Nestlé. The study suggests a link between the type of plastic the pouches are lined with – polyethylene – and some of the microplastics found.

May 20, 2026

Dr. Donald A. Prater has been named as the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Food at FDA

As the Acting Deputy Commissioner for Food, Dr. Prater leads the agency’s Human Foods Program, overseeing all FDA nutrition and food safety activities

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August 11, 2026
Beltway Beat

Normalization of Deviance: The Real Lesson of This Summer’s Cyclospora Outbreak

By Steve Ardagh
Steve Ardagh

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.

May 6, 2026
Ask The Expert

The Hidden Cost of Repetition

By Azure Edwards, M.S.
Manufacturing productivity, efficiency

Fifteen years of preventive controls investment has produced something many organizations are positioned to use more fully: a record of operational performance detailed enough to begin reading these costs as a pattern with a common origin rather than as isolated inefficiencies belonging to separate departments. That reorientation is available, and the infrastructure for it already exists. This five-part series examines food safety through the business realities that leaders already navigate: profitability, risk, growth, brand trust, and organizational function. Not to reframe food safety as a business problem, but to make visible what the industry has earned the right to see clearly.

May 3, 2026
Biros' Blog

Food Safety Fate

By Rick Biros

How a chance meeting lead to the sharing of an emotional and powerful food safety story. Was this random hotel elevator connection fate or divine intervention? I don’t know. What I do know is because Dana was willing to talk to a stranger, she was able to share her daughter, Kayla’s food safety story to an audience of food safety professionals and now to you. 

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.

January 29, 2026
Ask The Expert

Food Safety 4.0: Defining the Next Era of Food Safety Performance

By Shahram Ajamian

Food Safety 4.0 represents a new operating philosophy, not simply a new set of tools. I introduce this term intentionally and for the first time, recognizing that language shapes action. What an organization names, it prioritizes; what it prioritizes, it invests in; and what it invests in, it ultimately leads.

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.

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.



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