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Investing In Digital Technology Is Investing in Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

Today’s modern restaurant operators face challenges that no other generation has faced, thanks to COVID-19 closures, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, menu labeling, and food safety challenges. It is the industry's primary responsibility to be sure the food they sell and serve to consumers is safe.

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Canada moves to protect citizens from E. coli-tainted romaine lettuce from the Salinas Valley

Bill Marler

The temporary requirements add an extra level of control to the food safety measures already in place under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations Act (SFCA) and the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR). Food safety investigations by Canadian and U.S. coli O157:H7 from 2010 to 2019.

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Broad Coalition Calls for Modernization of Poultry Food Safety at USDA to Reduce Illnesses

Bill Marler

WASHINGTON—An unprecedented coalition of consumer groups, illness survivors, poultry industry leaders, academic scientists, and other food safety leaders are seeking a meeting with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to make a united case for a modernized, science-based regulatory approach to ensure the food safety of poultry products.

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What up with the Salmonella Peanut Butter and Hepatitis A Strawberry Outbreaks

Bill Marler

This means that people in this outbreak likely got sick from the same food. Smucker Company facility in 2010. The analysis shows that this 2010 environmental sample was closely related genetically to the outbreak strain. There were no food recall warnings associated with this outbreak. On May 20, 2022, J.M.

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Milestones in Food Safety: 2010-2023

Food Quality & Safety

Editor’s note: As Food Quality & Safety celebrates 30 years of publication, we think it’s fitting to examine the major food safety events of the period and to highlight the extraordinary efforts to make food safer over the last three decades. In this article, we take a look at the 2010s. McEntire says.

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AI and Visual Text Analytics in Food Safety Inspections

Food Safety Tech

We spoke with Sabo to learn more about his findings, how these tools can be utilized by public health agencies and the food industry and what’s next for AI/ML in food safety. Visual text analytics can scan inspection reports and analyze terms related to serious food safety violations.

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So, what’s the cause of the recent E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak?

Bill Marler

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) – I do not recall a CDC post recently that included working with both the FSIS (regulates, Beef, Pork, Poultry and Catfish) and the FDA (regulates everything else). Beef, 2010, 21 cases, 43% female.

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