Food Engineering features some thoughts on the recent Romaine lettuce contamination by Aaron Cohen, co-founder of CoInspect and adjunct professor at New York University where he teaches the History of Internet Media. FE conducted an exclusive, one-on-one interview with Cohen, immediately following Cohen’s text.

Arca Continental has announced that its Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages subsidiary will build a new production and distribution plant in Houston.

The first outbreak started at the evening reception when the exhibit hall opened, and its Patient Zero was Chip Manuel from Diversey, which ended up infecting 202 people in total.

The affected products were distributed to stores in Texas and Mexico.

Nearly as important as doing the right things is documenting the who, what, when and where of your food safety processes.

Leading Dutch pickled vegetable processor Van der Kroon Food Products B.V. has become the first company to market with the recently-launched 500 ml multilayer Thermic Ultra jar from RPC Kutenholz.

Kallon, the founder of Ifood, talks about how children growing beards because of food safety issues led to his work in block chain.

The Golden International Corporation of Renton, WA is issuing a public safety notice for 405 cartons of stolen frozen tilapia, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella after it was stolen and possibly sold.

There have been no injuries reported due to this incident, and all products related to this recall were sold at the company’s Texas stores.

The winners, chosen from more than 300 entries, were announced at an awards ceremony at the Sweets & Snacks Expo, held May 22-24 at McCormick Place in Chicago.