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Editor's Note

Attaining clarity in a complicated and demanding industry

June 4, 2014

As you know, finding the best ways to conduct business and achieve success in the food and beverage manufacturing industry can be very complicated.

FDA gives sneak peek at new Food Defense Plan Builder tool

Comment period extended on FSMA proposed sanitary transportation rule

Jeremy Gerrard

May 21, 2014

FDA announced Tuesday it extended the comment period on the proposed rule relating to the sanitary transportation of human and animal food by 60 days.

Food Safety

Food Safety Summit 2014 focuses on FSMA

Wayne Labs

May 6, 2014

More than 1,500 food safety professionals gathered at BNP Media’s 16th Annual Food Safety Summit (FSS) last month in Baltimore, MD to learn about the latest FSMA updates and how they will affect their companies’ businesses.

Food Safety

Semper paratus! Food defense depends on it

“Always prepared” is good advice for protecting the food supply, and it’s the law.

Wayne Labs

May 6, 2014

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” is a line made famous by the Monty Python troupe.

Buhler Aeroglide's hygienically designed dryer has an open frame design, which uses a formed channel with a minimum surface finish of 32 Ra, 2B SS.

Sanitary Equipment Design

Wayne Labs

April 8, 2014

Depending on the application and the country, design rules and standards can vary, causing headaches for machine builders as they try to make designs more universal.

FDA releases International Food Safety Capacity-Building plan

FDA to announce extension of proposed FSMA rule comment periods

Comment periods for the proposed rules on mitigation strategies for intentional adulteration and the designation of high-risk foods for tracing.

Shane O'Halloran

March 20, 2014

Comment periods for the proposed rules on mitigation strategies for intentional adulteration and the designation of high-risk foods for tracing.

Proposed FDA rule on sanitary transport out for comment

March 8, 2014

FDA has published a proposed rule requiring shippers that transport food to use sanitary transportation practices. The action is being taken to comply with provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act and covers shippers that use motor vehicles or rail.

A lab technician tests food samples for pathogen contamination using DuPontÃ¢??s BAX System Q7 with real-time PCR technology.

Food Safety

Raw materials: Test or no test?

You can send incoming raw material samples out to a third-party lab, but plenty of easy-to-use, rapid test kits can more quickly provide the results you need—right at your own facility.

Wayne Labs

March 8, 2014

A June 10, 2011 report on Deutsche Welle states “bean sprouts are the likely source of an E. coli outbreak in Germany that has killed 31 people and made nearly 3,000 ill since May [2011].” This information was attributed to Reinhard Burger, president of Germany’s federal infectious disease laboratory, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

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