Penn State Food Safety Blog

JULY 26, 2024

There have been increasing news on microplastics and nanoplastics in our food supply. Environment a more important source than migration from food packaging - "Microplastics and nanoplastics may be present in food, primarily from environmental contamination where foods are grown or raised.

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Forward Fooding

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The company has raised a total of $12M in funding to date and recently acquired the business unit of an Israeli seed company to demonstrate its commitment to the genetic improvement of crops to secure the food supply. Missouri-based biotech company Agragene focuses on developing gene-editing tools for crop protection.

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Food Safety Experts

MAY 16, 2023

Food Fraud & Food Defense Safeguarding the Integrity of the Food Industry In the fast-paced and interconnected world of the global food industry, nothing is more vital than ensuring the safety and authenticity of the food products we consume. The goal of food defense is to establish strong preventive measures.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

"Spices such as turmeric, cinnamon and paprika have been known to be mixed with lead chromate or lead oxide, compounds that mirror the spices' colors, said Karen Everstine, technical director for FoodchainID, a company that tracks food supply chains." “The CDC’s case definition for state partners includes a blood lead level of 3.5

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Total Food Service

AUGUST 22, 2023

And of course, without going into old topics, food supply was an issue, it still is today, definitely is not as bad as it was during the pandemic. The cost of our food, our supplies, equipment and so forth has definitely went up. But there’s still a few challenges out there.

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Food Safety Tech

AUGUST 15, 2024

According to ISO definition, an audit is “systematic, independent, and documented process for obtaining objective evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which audit criteria are fulfilled.” Audits and Inspections both verify the facility’s compliance with regulatory and procedural compliance, but in different ways.

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Bill Marler

APRIL 9, 2020

On one hand: “You have to recognize what an amazing job food production is doing in the world, especially in the U.S. Given the amount of people that we feed, the relative safety of the food supply is pretty amazing given how it has become more and more complex. Well, that certainly starts things off on a definitive note.

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Bill Marler

MAY 24, 2022

Despite this very unusual combination of events, we do not have definitive evidence proving that insanitary conditions of the Sturgis facility actually caused the Cronobacter illnesses of these infants. Thus, the four cases that came to our attention between September 20, 2021, and February 17, 2022, raised concerns.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This figure has continued to serve as reference for the extent of global food waste. However, the FAO methodology does not factor in consumer behavior regarding food waste and considers food supply alone in determining the extent of food waste.

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Food Quality & Safety

JUNE 3, 2024

There is no ISO method for prepared foods. The committee said infectivity assays are needed for wild-type viruses, as there still is no definitive way to tell infectious from noninfectious viruses using molecular amplification. Methods to detect hepatitis E in meats are under development.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Section 403(w)(1) of the FD&C Act sets forth the requirements for declaring the presence of each major food allergen on the product label. This guidance does not address the potential that a substance that would be new to the food supply might be a food allergen.

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Penn State Food Safety Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

An article posted elsewhere discussed two recent surveys on people's concern with the food supply. food supply has reached a record low". The other from the International Food Information Council (IFIC) stated "Confidence in the safety of the food supply is down from last year (62%, down from 70% in 2022).

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 25, 2020

The weaknesses in the soy nut butter case were all the more notable because they came 8½ months after the FDA’s inspector general declared that it lacked adequate procedures for handling food outbreaks. “We It’s definitely been a life – changing event, one of the worst,” said his wife, Fran Green.

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