Potential risk around food packaging has become a greater focus for both regulators and consumers in recent months. Certainly, there is potential risk from packaging that comes in contact with a food and it may carry the same contamination risk...

It’s finally here – for better or worse. More than a decade after the publication of the Food Safety Modernization Act, the mandated Traceability Rule has finally been published. Overall, the provisions of the final rule stayed fairly close to...

An analysis of pathogen-contaminated food outbreaks from 1998 through 2020 showed that Salmonella was implicated in significantly more outbreaks than E. coli or Listeria, as the data from the recently released annual IFSAC report on Sources of Foodborne Illness illustrate....

As consultants, the TAG Team counsels food and beverage companies on a daily basis on issues and concerns in their establishments or those of their suppliers. Many of the concerns are fairly common across establishments, and in some cases, they...

Whether you are a foreign supplier of food to the U.S. or you import food or ingredients, there are a number of dos and don’ts to know – and pass along to your suppliers – about FDA foreign facility inspection...

After announcing its intent to declare Salmonella an adulterant in breaded stuffed raw chicken products in August, USDA FSIS has now furthered its action against Salmonella in all poultry, proposing a “regulatory framework” that would provide for an enforceable, quantifiable...

As the sales end point of the food supply chain, retailers are not often the initial focus of food safety or quality issues, as most kill steps and interventions are expected to have taken place prior to a food’s packaging...

Food manufacturers have long used the word Healthy on food labels with minimal regulatory requirements beyond the 1994 definition which focused primarily on sodium levels and the 2016 guidance which set limits for total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium...

Just as TAG had predicted, the issues that arose during the infant formula Cronobacter outbreak and supply shortage have continued to bear down on, not only infant formula segment, but the food industry as a whole. And from the most...

Food safety training, to at least some degree, has always been an inherent aspect of food production for any successful food business. And with FSMA’s Produce Safety Rule and Preventive Controls Rules bringing requirements for specific worker food safety training...