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Why and How We Helped California Build a Campaign to Shift Perceptions About School Food Professionals

Chef Ann Foundation

Powered by School Food Professionals is a first-of-its-kind public education campaign that puts a spotlight on the skill, creativity, and commitment of school food professionals working to improve school meals for kids across California. Backed by comprehensive audience research, the campaign serves as a model for other states seeking to dismantle barriers to school food change.

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Forma Foods uses 3D printing technologies to produce plant-based meat

Food Safety Tech

Forma Foods, a startup company incubated at Tecnologico de Monterrey, the top Mexican university in engineering and technology according to the QS World Ranking 2024, is leveraging cutting-edge 3D printing technologies to produce plant-based meat that not only looks and tastes like real meat, but also promotes a more sustainable and ethical approach to future food.

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The Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness Announces 2024 Class of 40 Under 40

Food Safety Tech

The Alliance to Stop Foodborne Illness — an arm of the national nonprofit consumer advocacy group Stop Foodborne Illness — proudly announces its “ 2024 40 Food Safety Professionals Under 40.” This yearly initiative highlights exceptional young professionals making significant contributions to food safety and food safety culture worldwide.

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Ensuring Food Safety at Tasting Events: Best Practices and Tips

Food Safety Tech

If you are unfamiliar with the concept, a tasting event allows people to sample small quantities of a large variety of foods and drinks. Tastings are becoming increasingly popular as people clamor for the opportunity to explore new food experiences, be they new ingredients, new flavor combinations, new presentations, or new brands. Though wineries have long been known to offer tasting opportunities to guests, other types of businesses in the food industry have started to experiment with the tast

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48% of F&B Suppliers Rely on Spreadsheets

Food Safety Tech

From June 24, 2024 through July 15, 2024, TraceGains conducted an online survey of 483 food and beverage industry suppliers to better understand supplier readiness and drivers for change and found most suppliers stuck in the past, unprepared for change with legacy processes despite a willingness and understanding on the benefits for modernizing. To quantify the problem, a new report “Old Habits, New Challenges: The Critical Need for Modernization in Food and Beverage Supply Chains” found nearly

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Public-Private Partnership Aims to Fill Gaps in Supply Chain Interoperability

Food Safety Tech

As the food supply chain has become evermore global, the tracing of foodborne illness has become evermore complex. Although the Traceability Rule (FSMA 204) was enacted to mitigate that complexity, it has no provisions for interoperability between supply chains, primarily because FDA was not given the authority to require that. So the Partnership for Food Traceability (PFT) has stepped up the plate to fill that gap.