Health Canada will be able to act faster to authorize safe food additives.

Recalls in North America and around the world reinforce the need for a robust traceability system.

As part of larger sanitation programs, hand and boot washing plays a key role in improving food safety and adhering to stricter regulations.

Reported earlier in FE’s Tech Flash e-newsletter, the recent Salmonella Bredeney outbreak has sickened a total of 35 people in 19 states, and has been attributed to peanut butter—and potentially other nut butters—from Sunland Inc. (Portales, NM).

NOW Foods couldn’t take a chance that tainted ingredients would compromise the purity and integrity of its dietary supplements, so it found an easy way to spot check all incoming ingredients.

After the scary stories in January about arsenic and apple juice, now it’s rice.

Consumers may think audits equal safe food, but do they?

The Center for Science in the Public Interest says FDA has not been keeping up with implementing FSMA rules.

A food safety plan starts with prevention, but must also include the actions to take should an incident occur.