The federal government prohibits interstate commerce of raw milk because it can contain disease-causing pathogens. Yet at least 29 states permit its intrastate sale to some extent, with eight states allowing virtually unrestricted sale at retail. Why is there such...

California is well-known for regulations that go beyond those of other states as federally set regulations. In fact, as stated in the Orange County Register, “For almost every national regulator and attached code, California has its own stricter regulators and...

Although food safety training is required by regulation for food businesses, food safety education will help to move your business beyond the norm, better enable your workers to absorb and retain the knowledge, and benefit your team as both workers...

There’s no question that prices on nearly everything have significantly increased in recent years. But did you know that the jump in food prices between 2021 and 2022 was the largest annual increase since the 1980s – increasing about 11%...

What do canned tuna, yogurt, and Partially Hydrogenated Oils (PHOs) have in common? All are undergoing an FDA definition change. Over the last several months, FDA has been reviewing and updating its Standards of Identity (SOI) program to modernize food...

Recalls due to the presence of “Potential Foreign Material” are an ongoing issue in the food industry, with one of the most impactful ones being the 2018 recall of 3,000 pounds of frozen chicken due to pieces of blue and...

While the phrase, “hindsight is 20/20” is often portrayed negatively, that 20/20 clarity of the past can provide lessons for the future. One area in which this was recently seen was the apparent positive impact of the pandemic behavior modifications...

If your food quality is slipping, food safety issues may not be far behind. Although food safety and quality are distinct characteristics of a food, they also are interconnected. Issues that arise with food quality, such as a rise in...

With last week’s release of a publication from the World Health Organization (WHO) assessing the health impacts of the non-sugar sweetener aspartame, news and social media headlines linking the words aspartame and cancer are causing sudden and inadvertent fears of...

A “May Contain” advisory statement on the label of a food product can be a valuable warning to consumers of the potential of an unintentional, unavoidable allergen in a product … or it can be a pretext for the lack...