Food Safety
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- September 15, 2011
Under the Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law in January of this year, the FDA has a mandate to prioritize facility inspections according to risk. Highest risk would be foods implicated in outbreaks, and companies involved in related recalls. To help facilitate this decision process the University of Florida, Emerging Pathogen Institute, did an analysis of pathogen/ food combinations that have had the greatest impact on Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY). QALY not only accounts for the immediate severity of an illness resulting from a food borne incident, but the long
- July 26, 2011
Here's a sneak peek of our exhibit at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting, at the Frontier Airlines Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, next week, July 31-August 2.
Our booth 621 will feature:
- Our new website, we will have a laptop right in the booth, stop by and check it out!
- Color-coded products, many new items are now available in purple.
- Sanitation & environmental testing supplies, see our allergen test kits &
- June 02, 2011
You have just finished cleaning all your food contact surfaces and now it is time to start up your production. How do you validate the fact that your cleaning is indeed
- January 27, 2011
E.coli infection occurs when a person is exposed to contaminated food, beverages, water, animals or person to person contact. The first sign of E.coli infection is sudden onset of abdominal pain and severe cramps, followed within 24-hours with diarrhea. The onset is typically three to four days after exposure to the bacteria. Most of these infections clear up on their own without treatment, but in some cases severe blood and kidney problems may occur 2 to 14 days after the onset of symptoms. Sometimes long-term disability or death in some children and older adults may occur. (www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/e-coli-infection-symptoms)
Causes:
- Eating under cooked ground beef, due to when they are slaughtered and processed, E.coli bacteria in their intestines can get on the meat. Ground beef often has bacteria spread throughout the mixture, not just on the
- December 30, 2010
Metal detection is an important part of food processing efforts to ensure food safety and more. According to an August Cheese Market News piece: “preventing