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Like it or not, over the past few years, the Western world has been creeping steadily closer toward the idea of insects as mainstream food. (Many Asian and South American countries are worlds ahead in that respect, where insects are often part of meals or sold as tasty street stall snacks.) With the latest move […] 
Valentine’s Day seems to be a bigger deal every year, as the lovestruck event planners of the world devise more and more ways to celebrate affection — both romantic and platonic. We’ve got Galentine’s Day lunches, Valenguys Day dinners, Palentine’s Day parties and more. At the center of them all: delicious food. With food comes […] 
The first International Food Safety Conference kicked off this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with participating world leaders hoping to promote greater global cooperation surrounding sustainability and unsafe food. The conference was organized by the African Union, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Trade Organization and the World Health […] 
A guidance document finalized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week strengthens the way companies issue public notices about their voluntary recalls, as well as elaborates on situations in which the FDA can issue its own warning about a product. The document is aimed to help the FDA keep potentially unsafe food […] 
Power outages may just be the worst thing that can happen to a home during a fierce winter storm. Heating may be knocked out, leaving residents shivering under blankets. Without working lights, the darkest season becomes depressingly darker. And no electricity means no working refrigerator — presenting food safety risks that all northerners should prepare […] 
Neogen’s Food Safety team would love to see you at the International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE) Feb. 12–14 in Atlanta, Georgia! Stop by booth #C11511 to learn how the food and beverage industries are leveraging our solutions. Featured Products The Raptor® Integrated Analysis Platform — a lateral flow test strip reader with built-in incubation […] 
In a food production or processing plant, the seek-and-destroy method is a technique for finding niches that harbor bacterial pathogens, like the particularly tricky Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono). If detected, the contaminated area can be totally cleaned and disinfected, eradicating the pathogen. It’s an approach to environmental monitoring that has been increasingly encouraged as the […] 
Research has made it clear in recent years that, above many other food safety practices, monitoring the food production environment in a “seek and destroy” approach is the best way to tackle Listeria contamination threats. In fact, Food Safety Magazine found in a wide-reaching survey that environmental monitoring for Listeria is the “fastest growing […] 
Fruit products originally sourced from Chile, and processed in a New York facility, have been recalled in the U.S. The recalls include thousands of cartons of nectarines, peaches and plums after routine sampling by the New York facility found Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) contamination in finished product. The products were to be sold in major […] 
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” This quote from business magnate Warren Buffett, adorning the cubicle walls of public relations and communications experts everywhere, should also hold a place in the heart of food safety managers. In an era of rapidly spreading information, food safety incidents […] |
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