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Key Food Safety Hazard & Risks Forecast Trend for 2025

Key Food Safety Hazard & Risks Forecast Trend for 2025

What are the top food safety hazards in 2025? Get AI-powered forecasts on key risks, high-risk products & geographies. Stay ahead of recalls & protect your supply chain with data-driven insights.

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Concept of Zoning & Application in Food Processing for Salmonella

Discover essential insights in our white paper on hygienic zoning and pathogen monitoring! Learn how to enhance food safety, prevent cross-contamination, and comply with regulatory standards. Elevate your manufacturing practices today! Read more now!

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Guide to FSMA 204 Compliance

Are you responsible for FSMA 204 compliance in your organization? Prepare for the FDA's new traceability regulations with this in-depth Guide to FSMA 204 Compliance.

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Save Your Brand From a Major Recall: Preventing Contamination in Food Plants

Save Your Brand From a Major Recall

Sponsored By NEOGEN Corporation

From EMP must have’s to food processing facility design principles, this checklist details the critical steps needed to take a preventative stance on food safety and avoid costly production interruptions and brand-damaging recall events.

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9 Steps to a Strong Supplier Approval Program

9 Steps to a Strong Supplier Approval Program

Sponsored By TraceGains, Inc.

Onboarding new suppliers is challenging if you don't have a robust structure in place. Reduce the risk of issues occurring further down the line and read this free guide to see if you're set up correctly.

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Analytix Reporter Special Edition: Food & Beverage

Analytix Reporter Special Edition: Food & Beverage

Sponsored By Millipore Sigma

Stay current with new applications and products for F&B chemical testing. Download this 96-page technical newsletter (pdf, 10 MB) that contains 34 articles employing techniques including: Sample prep, Chromatography, Spectroscopy, and Titration

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Food and Beverage Chemical Contaminant Testing Application Notebook

Food and Beverage Chemical Contaminant Testing Application Notebook

Sponsored By Waters

Achieve increased sensitivity for trace contaminants, faster time-to-result, and improved laboratory efficiency. Waters fit-for-purpose methods, instrumentation, and support bring reliability and flexibility for current and future needs.

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Exclusion Basics: Your First Line of Defense Against Pests

Exclusion Basics: Your First Line of Defense Against Pests

Sponsored By Orkin

If you're not looking for it, you might not see the hidden entries that allow pests into your facility. This is where exclusion tactics come in. This comprehensive guide can help you find the right exclusion services to complement your IPM plan.

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Reducing Salmonella & Listeria with SteraMist Cold Plasma iHP

Reducing Salmonella & Listeria with SteraMist Cold Plasma iHP

Sponsored By SteraMist Disinfection & Decontamination

When it comes to protecting your staff, yield quality, bottom line, and everything in between, SteraMist disinfection and sanitization is the ultimate choice. Read to discover the incredible benefits SteraMist can introduce to your process!

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HPLC Methods eBook: Dietary Supplement & Natural Product Analysis

HPLC Methods eBook: Dietary Supplement & Natural Product Analysis

Sponsored By Thermo Fisher Scientific

The structural diversity of dietary supplements can pose challenges when you need comprehensive quantitative and impurity analysis. Get our eBook and learn how you can use HPLC-UV-CAD methods to confidently assess product quality and purity.

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Maintain Your Position Against Pests

Maintain Your Position Against Pests

Sponsored By Orkin

This one-of-a-kind pest control guide will help you understand pest threats such as rodents and stored product pests and help prevent them before they impact your business's bottom line.

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Orkin’s Comprehensive Guide to Flies & Fly Control Strategy

Orkin’s Comprehensive Guide to Flies & Fly Control Strategy

Sponsored By Orkin

It’s just a fly, right? Wrong. These winged pests carry more contaminants than a gas station bathroom. And if you’re not strict about sanitation, a fly infestation could become a serious threat to your business. In this complimentary guide, you'll learn what makes flies tick (buzz) and what you can do to help prevent them from compromising your food safety efforts.

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Your Guide to GFSI: Your Guide to Navigating GFSI Certification

Your Guide to GFSI: Your Guide to Navigating GFSI Certification

Sponsored By Mérieux NutriSciences

Many retailers and manufacturers require suppliers to demonstrate their commitment to the safety and quality of products. Highly recognized global certifications benchmarked by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) can provide this assurance. See our brochure for more information about the GFSI certification process!

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Smart Process Control: Maximize Efficiency & Reduce Costs

Smart Process Control: Maximize Efficiency & Reduce Costs

Sponsored By Novolyze

Read our in-depth eBook, written by expert industry peers, to discover how to easily implement a smart Process Control platform to manage food safety, quality, and compliance, while saving costs and resources, and increasing efficiency and throughput.

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Subway® Streamlines Internal and Supply Chain Quality Processes

Subway Streamlines Internal and Supply Chain Quality Processes

Sponsored By ETQ, LLC, part of Hexagon

SUBWAY®, the largest restaurant chain in the world, needed a scalable and flexible solutions to support ongoing growth. With a worldwide presence, SUBWAY® is constantly growing its supply chain. It uses a strict approval process to meet legal requirements and ensure high quality.

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Development of a Simplified Assurance® GDS workflow for Detection of Salmonella in Cocoa

Development of a Simplified Assurance GDS workflow for Detection of Salmonella in Cocoa

Sponsored By Millipore Sigma

Cocoa has antimicrobial properties and is a difficult matrix for the detection of Salmonella, which makes testing workflows more cumbersome than other food matrices. We created two simple, robust methods for PCR-based detection of Salmonella in cocoa (AOAC PTM 050602).

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Environmental control for halal-certified food producers

Environmental control for halal-certified food producers

Sponsored By Millipore Sigma

Learn about Halal Assurance System guidelines that support companies on how to implement appropriate microbial monitoring systems. These require culture media that avoid cross contamination of the production line with non-halal material.

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Rapid Detection of Pathogens in Infant Food using the Assurance® GDS system

Rapid Detection of Pathogens in Infant Food using the Assurance® GDS System

Sponsored By Millipore Sigma

Due to reported outbreaks of Cronobacter sakazakii and Salmonella infections in infants which have been epidemiologically linked to powdered infant formulas, infant formula production has become stringently regulated. In this study, we evaluated the Assurance® GDS Cronobacter Tq II kit’s capacity to detect very low CFU contamination levels of Cronobacter sakazakii ATCC® 29004 in different infant formula food products.

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Identification of Salmonella in food ingredients using the Assurance GDS System

Identification of Salmonella in food ingredients using the Assurance GDS System

Sponsored By Millipore Sigma

Salmonella can be quite resilient, and its identification is key to ensuring safe release of food products to the public. This application note looks at the identification of Salmonella in active ingredients and infant formula and cereals using the Assurance® GDS molecular platform.

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Detection and Human Performance for Industrial Applications

Detection and Human Performance for Industrial Applications

Sponsored By P&P Optica

Little research is published on inspector performance in visual inspection tasks in the food industry. This article summarizes available research from other industries and makes recommendations for processors.

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What Does Digital Food Safety Mean?

What Does Digital Food Safety Mean

Sponsored By Primority Ltd

Unprecedented changes in FDA regulations are driving digitisation of food supply chains. COVID-19, Blockchain and AI are also having significant impacts. Read this paper to stay informed on what these developments mean to your role and your business.

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Quality Management Software: A Buyer’s Guide for Modern Quality Teams

Sponsored By RizePoint

In an ever-more connected world, quality teams don’t have the visibility they need. Pen and paper evaluations transferred to spreadsheets have been the norm for decades. But sparse, disconnected data doesn’t cut it anymore.

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Strengthening Food Safety Programs from the Foundation Up

Strengthening Food Safety Programs from the Foundation Up

Sponsored By GS1 US, Inc.

This document will outline some of the key standards and the critical roles they play to support a successful food traceability program in the “New Era.”

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Industry Briefing: Digitalization in Food & Beverage

Digitalization in Food and Beverage

Sponsored By Siemens

This white paper on digitalization in the food and beverage sector analyzes the challenges of the industry and delves into the evolution of business processes through the adoption of new digital technologies.

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Artificial Intelligence & Predictive Analytics for Food Risk Prevention

Artificial Intelligence & Predictive Analytics for Food Risk Prevention

Sponsored By Agroknow

Covering AI & Predictive Analytics for Food Risk Prevention, this paper gathers leading opinions from major food companies on how technology will reduce the challenges we are currently facing in the supply chain & boost trust in the food industry.

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How InvisiShield Reduces Fungal Growth on Berries

How InvisiShield Reduces Fungal Growth on Berries

Sponsored By Aptar Food + Beverage

A recent study conducted by Analytical Food Laboratories (AFL) tested the efficacy of Aptar’s novel antimicrobial technology in inhibiting and reducing fungal growth in blueberries and sliced strawberries over a period of 14 days.

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The Absolut Company: World-class manufacturing with Siemens manufacturing operations management

The Absolut Company

Sponsored By Siemens

The operational demands for the food and beverage industry, from supply chain disruptions to ever-changing customer expectations, have reached a new level. The need for speed and agility for retailers and brands to operate in today’s environment are greater than ever.

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Simulation in the consumer products industry

Simulation in the consumer products industry

Sponsored By Siemens

Learn how simulation and computational algorithms play a huge role in the realization of the digital twins for digitalized enterprises in the food and beverage industry of the future.

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Use of Remote Rodent Monitoring with Regard to Food Safety Regulations and Current Pest Control Practices

Use of Remote Rodent Monitoring with Regard to Food Safety Regulations and Current Pest Control Practices

Sponsored By Bayer

This paper outlines some of the requirements for pest management based on Food and Drug regulations and GFSI standards. It explains how the Bayer RMS can help pest management companies and food processing/handling facilities partner to implement a more effective rodent control management plan in response to these regulations and standards.

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Food Fraud: A Global Threat with Public Health and Economic Consequences

Book Preview: Food Fraud: A Global Threat with Public Health and Economic Consequences

The book provides a holistic discussion of food fraud prevention and compliance with regulatory and industry standards. Included in the book is a brief overview of the history of food fraud, current challenges, vulnerabilities facing the food industry, requirements for compliance with regulatory and industry standards on mitigating vulnerability for food fraud, with a focus on the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Benchmarking Requirements.

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Upcoming FST Events & Webinars

October 19, 2025 – October 22, 2025
Food Safety Consortium Conference

Food Safety Tech and the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) are excited to announce that the 2025 Food Safety Consortium will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia, from October 19-21. The 2025 event will focus on the convergence of policy, science, and best practices. With the conference being held near Washington, D.C., this year will place a renewed 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.

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