Since the beginning of the pandemic, the food industry has seen lower than normal rates of recalls. While the reasons for this likely var… … Continue readingDoes Your Recall Plan Serve Your COVID-19 Business Strategies?

Whether caused by a keener focus on sanitation and food safety – or, as postulated by FSN, a diversion of public health professionals to … … Continue readingPast Years Outbreak Summaries Provide for Continuous Learning

How up to date are you with FDA regulations? If quizzed, could you define FTL, CTE, and KDE? If not, the October TAG/SafetyChain FSMA Fri… … Continue readingFDA’s Food traceability list – Are you Up to Date?

In a follow-up to its proposed Traceability Rule released in October, the FDA has developed resources to help the industry understand the… … Continue readingUnderstanding the ProposeD Traceability Rule

There have been a number of outbreaks and clusters of illnesses in the last several months, some of which have tracked back to certain fo… … Continue readingTracking an Outbreak: The Disparities and Challenges

Like GFSI, FDA, and even some federal regulatory bodies, TAG is of this latter group – having expanded into the remote assessment sphere. … Continue readingVirtual Technologies Becoming Vital in Food Facility Assessments

From the implementation of modernized inspection of USDA-regulated facilities to consumer food preparation research and outreach, the agency … Continue readingUSDA-/FSIS Drives Salmonella-Reduction Roadmap from Industry to Consumers

There’s a lot to absorb in FDA’s newly published Food Traceability Proposed Rule (Requirements for Additional Traceability Records for Ce… … Continue readingThe Proposed Traceability Rule: Recordkeeping and Exemptions