Despite the giant piles of rules, summaries, fact sheets, and guidance for the various FSMA rules. FDA didn’t publish a simple list of effective compliance dates for all of the
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This post is a second shout out to the agencies that help keep our food supply safe-er than it would be without them. Check out the previous post which focused on the FDA. At FF&F, I’m often
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Source: Multnomah County Food Safety Blog. Check it out, it's awesome! http://www.chefsconnection.org/ Food safety is expensive, how do we reward companies that are taking the time to do it
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Each circle represents a city, larger circles indicate more inspections were performed in that city. Oregon Department of Agriculture has had some recent poor reviews regarding it's maintenance
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Source: Wikipedia Commons image by tsca. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hospital_room_ubt.jpeg Oftentimes when we talk about the importance of food safety, we bring up victim cases;
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I was looking over the SQF code the other day and pondering the phrase "food-grade" for lubricants and chemicals, then I got home and noticed the "food-grade" sticker on my CO2 canister in my
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At FF&F, I'm often harsh on FDA for lack of enforcement, ownership of their own role in preventive food safety, and failing to consistently stand by their guidance. However, you will still see me
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Image created by Austin Bouck. Dear god let there be no egregious mistakes... Recently a podcast I often listen to has discussed several articles with a similar note in their conclusions. Nearly
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Apparently I have T-Rex arms here...I was excited! I had the honor once again to make a presentation to two 4th grade classes at a local elementary school during their Oregon Trail unit. The
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"It's not like they won't find something anyway" "We don't have time" "It's never going to be perfect" "That's not my job." "We've done it this way for years...it's never caused a