FoodSafetyPlansBlog
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Keeping Food Safe with a Food Safety Plan

If you are a domestic or foreign facility covered under the preventive controls rule, you must implement a food safety plan.  The rule on Preventive Controls for Human Food is mandated by the 2011 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.  The…
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Food Defense
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Food Defense: A Shield for Businesses and Consumers

In an era of globalization, the world has become a smaller space. It has become easier to travel and transport things from one corner of the world to another. Likewise, the complexity, diversity and dependency on intertwined domestic and global…
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Product Recall
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Food Recalls: Why We Take Them Seriously

In January 2021 a food retailer recalled cartons of their ice cream due to metal fragments in the product. Only one consumer reported metal pieces found in their ice cream; however, due to this incident, as many as 11,000 cartons were recalled…
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Food Safety, Jobs in the Time of COVID-19

How badly did I NOT want to put Coronavirus (Covid-19) in the title of this article? This article is focused on the best practices that we should all be practicing in our food facilities, global pandemic or not. I was torn on the addition…
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UPDATE: FDA Helps Small Businesses Determine Their Size: Will My Facility Be Inspected?

FDA Publishes a Final Guidance Document That headline is part of the big news here. We are living in the world of draft FDA guidance documents for food safety that are the FDA’s current thinking on a topic. I applaud the FDA for releasing…
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Are Food Laboratories Required to be Certified?

If you have heard of ISO 17025, you either work in a food testing laboratory or send samples to a food testing laboratory. Clients in the food industry have asked me, is ISO 17025 a requirement? There is no simple answer. For example, state…
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FDA Responds to Failures in Recall Process

Caliente! Hot Topic! Have you heard? FDA is going to initiate recalls and announce recalls to consumers. Technically, the FDA initiating a recall is not new, because FDA gained the authority to initiate a recall in 2011 with the signing of…
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HACCP vs. Preventive Controls

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Food Safety in 2019

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