A recent food poisoning case in Georgia brings to mind thoughts on both good and bad news for the food industry. While food companies sho… … Continue readingCan Your Defense Hold Up Should Your Business Be Taken to Court?

Over the last few weeks, our TAG newsletters have focused a lot on foodborne illness outbreaks, recalls, and their impacts on public heal… … Continue readingFear the DOJ? USDA Criminal Actions Report Carries Caution Counsel For All

During 2009 and 2015 foodborne illness outbreaks caused by Listeria, Salmonella, and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) were r… … Continue readingCDC Surveillance Report Shows Areas We Need to Improve

Regulatory inspections at retail establishments have always played a very important role in protecting public health and preventing foodb… … Continue readingInternal Retail Audits: A Tool to Help with Regulatory Inspections and Mitigate Food Safety Risks

Recalls can have considerable impact on a food facility’s business, and when the recall is for a food used widely as an ingredient, it ha… … Continue readingTest Your Recall Readiness: Can You “Check All the Boxes” of this Primer?

In January, we gave our predictions for The Food Industry in 2017, stating that we expected there to be a heavy focus on FSMA roll-out an… … Continue readingTAG’s Top 10: How Did We Do?

In follow up to last week’s newsletter on exporting food products, this week we are taking a look at importing foods and ingredients. Alt… … Continue readingImporting Food? Here’s What You Need to Know

Back in mid-2016, the FDA issued final rules for new Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts Labels and Serving Sizes. Recently the FDA exte… … Continue readingClarifying FDA’s Food Labeling Rules and Compliance

That is the question: Whether ’tis nobler to use whole genome sequencing (WGS) and risk the slings and arrows of detecting a resident str… … Continue readingTAG Food Safety To WGS or Not to WGS

It was just a brief announcement put out last week by FDA – you may have even missed it. But if you export food, FDA’s expansion of its e… … Continue readingFood Export Certification: Simplified and Clarified