FEATURED FOOD SAFETY TESTING ARTICLES
In this segment of Food For Thought: FSMA’s Produce Safety Rule, Jennifer McEntire, VP food safety & technology at United Fresh Produce Association, and Maile Gradison Hermida, partner with Hogan Lovells, discuss how the FDA will enforce FSMA’s Produce Rule, how FSVP intersects with the rule, and some of the rule’s sanitation requirements.
FOOD SAFETY TESTING CASE STUDIES
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![Cold Brew Coffee GettyImages-1148270078]( "Three Stage Filtration Train Delivers Shelf-Stable Cold Brew Coffee")
Three Stage Filtration Train Delivers Shelf-Stable Cold Brew CoffeeDiscover how the implementation of a three-stage filtration train for a cold brew producer in the Midwest produced a reproducible and consistent barrier for contaminant removal at ambient temperature.
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![Installed iTHERM TrustSens sensor at the brewery]( "New Belgium Brewing Refines Processes With Self-Calibrating Thermometers")
New Belgium Brewing Refines Processes With Self-Calibrating ThermometersNew Belgium Brewing needed an efficient solution to calibrate thermometers at its Asheville, NC plant. The company saved time and money and reduced risks by implementing self-calibrating thermometers.
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How Green Valley Pecan Boosts Worker Knowledge, Retention, And Confidence
Green Valley Pecan Company has grown to encompass 10,000 acres with year-round processing facilities. The company was faced with the challenge of preventing the natural knowledge loss that occurs between trainings while simultaneously boosting knowledge retention without increasing training time. This case study details the solution, systems, and tools the company implemented to achieve its goals, as well as their corresponding improvement metrics.
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Automation Enables Growth & Boosts Productivity In A Pathogen Testing Lab
A contract testing laboratory was experiencing rapid growth in pathogen testing volume. This case study shows how the lab was able to expand, with no additional resources, and provide higher quality results.
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Bigelow Tea Improves Quality And Customer Satisfaction
Bigelow Tea has been making specialty teas for over seventy years. The company grows, blends, and packages hundreds of varieties of tea for distribution across the nation. Today, the company boasts the only U.S.-based industrial tea plantation, as well as three packaging sites that employ hundreds of workers. Because of the company’s size, it needed a consistent training program across all its location. This case study examines how interactive classroom training, course customization, and multilingual content helped Bigelow Tea create a companywide, consistent training program.
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Bonduelle Achieves Six Years With Zero Lost Time Incidents
Bonduelle’s 500 vegetable varieties are processed at 58 facilities by over 10,000 workers. Safety is top of mind for the company, and with so many facilities and employees, creating a companywide culture of food safety is essential. This case study shows how Bonduelle used front-line workforce training, verification training, and automated recordkeeping and reporting to achieve its desired food safety goals.
FOOD SAFETY TESTING WHITE PAPERS & ARTICLES
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![Truck Transporting Food GettyImages-1365566544]( "Preventing Product Recalls By Timely Adoption Of Technology")
Preventing Product Recalls By Timely Adoption Of TechnologyProduct recalls can damage a company's reputation. Learn about the reasoning behind recalls, the impact of recalls, and what companies can do to minimize their exposure to such risks.
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![juice iStock-1196425329]( "Understanding Direct Flow And Crossflow Microfiltration In Food And Beverage Industry Applications")
Understanding Direct Flow And Crossflow Microfiltration In Food And Beverage Industry ApplicationsHere we explain direct flow and crossflow filtration with special focus on microfiltration with direct flow filters and crossflow systems to supply a better understanding of solutions for food and beverage microfiltration applications.
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![Food manufacturing conveyor tea leaves iStock-1197644742]( "Understand Hygienic Principles In Food Manufacturing")
Understand Hygienic Principles In Food ManufacturingThis guide provides you with the tools to evaluate the washdown capabilities of a given piece of production equipment.
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![Quality Testing.jpg]( "Using Flowmeter Measurements To Improve Quality")
Using Flowmeter Measurements To Improve QualityFood plants make extensive lab-based quality measurements to ensure product quality. Coriolis flowmeters can make some of these measurements in real time, saving time and money.
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![Foodborne_Illness_iStock-507714312]( "Overcoming The Challenge Of Tracking Sources Of Foodborne Illnesses")
Overcoming The Challenge Of Tracking Sources Of Foodborne IllnessesRomaine lettuce is a staple in many home and restaurant kitchens, but shoppers found the crispy green vegetable difficult to locate in late 2018. As an outbreak of E. coli-tainted romaine began to make headlines, it was pulled from store shelves and restaurant delivery trucks all over the country. By the time the source of contamination was traced back to a California farm, and sales could be restarted, more than 60 people had been infected and dozens had been hospitalized.
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X-Ray: A Solid Investment To Improve Food Safety And Quality
This article provides insight into physical contaminant detection and explains why X-Ray technology is an excellent solution for eliminating physical contaminant concerns.
FOOD SAFETY TESTING PRODUCTS
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![Thermo Scientific]( "In-Air Pathogen Surveillance Sampler For Food Manufacturers")
The Thermo Scientific™ AerosolSense™ Sampler is a new pathogen surveillance solution that delivers timely and highly reliable insight into in-air pathogen presence, including Flu A/B, SARS-CoV-2 and RSV, so you can monitor and improve your facility safety protocols.
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The Remel range of ready-to-use Agglutinating Sera for the presumptive identification of cultured bacteria is now available from Oxoid Limited. These simple tests rapidly detect specific bacterial antigens for the identification, grouping and/or typing of Salmonella and other food-borne micro-organisms
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![headerxx.jpg]( "DeltaTRAK Announces New Loggers, Thermometers And pH Meter For Food Safety")
DeltaTRAK, a leading innovator of cold chain management solutions and bacteria detection technologies recently announced the expansion of its food safety product line with multiple new food safety instruments including new loggers, thermometers and pH meters.
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GreenLight™ Model 910 is a simple low medium through-put test that provides total aerobic viable counts(TVC's or APC's) of food samples by measuring bacterial oxygen consumption and equating oxygen comsumption to microbial load.
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Roka offers accurate tests with the fast time to results on a single platform with a robust variety of validated matrices across the beef process chain. The Atlas E. coli O157:H7 EG2, STEC EG2 Combo, and Salmonella SEN Detection Assays offer unparalleled ease of use while maintaining accuracy and sensitivity. While other tests require tedious multistep preparation processes, the Atlas Assays have an easy 3-step process that generates accurate results faster.
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Food Safety in the Ready to Eat Market has become more complex. Not only is it more important than ever to control the processing environment, controlling the ingredient supply chain is paramount to ensuring your brand and more importantly ensuring your customers and brand are protected.
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A rapid, accurate, and reliable molecular assay for detecting the pathogen that causes listeriosis.
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Pet food manufacturers come in all shapes and sizes and may be impacted differently by the new FSMA rules. But many in the pet food industry have the same basic need: an accurate pathogen test that provides the fastest turnaround time possible. Pathogen testing methods that are best suited to the pet food industry are those that have demonstrated accurate, timely results in challenging matrices, such as environmental surfaces and dry kibble.
FOOD SAFETY TESTING MULTIMEDIA
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In this web chat, Jennifer McEntire, VP food safety & technology at United Fresh Produce Association joins Kristen Spotz, senior manager of food safety & quality assurance at GMA to talk all things traceability related to the food industry. In addition to providing leading traceability practices, the 45-minute session focuses heavily on McEntire and Spotz answering questions from the web chat’s audience.
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The Atlas System is a fully automated molecular instrument that enhances the accuracy, speed, and efficiency of food safety testing through detection of molecular pathogens, including Listeria, Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and other organisms commonly implicated in food contamination episodes.
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Pathogen testing is often outsourced to third-party lab providers. When choosing the best lab for your company, it is important to ask the right questions to ensure the test method aligns with the quality goals of the organization. This video provides guidance and offers suggestions to help you determine the best lab for you company’s pathogen detection needs.