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FSMA Rule 204 Updated: What Restaurants Need to Know Right Now

Modern Restaurant Management

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in January of 2011 and expanded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s authority to regulate the way foods are grown, harvested and processed. Tainted food has cost the food industry billions of dollars in recalls, lost sales, and legal expenses.

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The Importance of NSF Certification for Restaurant Tools and Knives

Modern Restaurant Management

In 2011, the U.S. government created the Food Safety Modernization Act , which transformed the nation’s food safety system by shifting the attention from responding to foodborne illness to preventing it.

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The Produce Industry, the FDA, the Congress and the President have blood on their hands

Bill Marler

Here is Dan Flynn’s editorial from Food Safety News from Spring 2012: Big Fresh has the blood on its hands. The big fruit and vegetable lobby managed to kill a little food safety program that cost this $3 trillion government a grand total of $5 million annually. Chump change. Actually, that’s true.

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All I want for my birthday is Salmonella Free Chicken

Bill Marler

Yesterday was my birthday (65) and I missed this posted by Sandra Eskin, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety in Health and Safety: Food Safety is About People. Here is a historical piece written by Helena Bottemiller, then at Food Safety News : It was Sept. When the U.S. This is nothing new.

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Many Do Not Cook Frozen Vegetables - Implications for the Food Safety Plan

Penn State Food Safety Blog

Results of a recent research survey published in the Journal of Food Protection show that about 9% of people do not cook frozen vegetables, although cooking instructions are stated on the product package. Many frozen foods facilities were built decades ago when there was no perceived risk due to organisms like Listeria monocytogenes.

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Request for update on Petition to deem Salmonella an Adulterant

Bill Marler

Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety. Food Safety and Inspection Service. Food Safety and Inspection Service. Designing Salmonella performance standard to more closely align with the goal of reducing foodborne illness is fundamental to improving food safety. August 19, 2021. Sandra Eskin.

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Ode to the Microbiological Data Program (MDP) – Its past time for a comeback

Bill Marler

It has been a long few weeks of long days, and more than a few nights, working on putting the cases together of the 22 injured people and the families of 20 who died in the 2011 Listeria cantaloupe outbreak that I represent. So, I really was going to take the weekend off and then Food Safety News reporter Helena Bottemiller (a.k.a.

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