I have always been an advocate of a single food safety agency – but also very realistic in recognizing that it will probably never happen...

Many of our clients had their recent holiday festivities interrupted by the “E. coli in Romaine” challenges that emerged at the end of De...

A few weeks ago, we got our first call from an importer who had received a 483 from FDA for lack of compliance with FSMA’s FSVP. There wa...

Over the last year, we have written a number of articles about environmental monitoring and controls, including our recent 2017 predictio...

In June 2016, FDA received an "early alert" memorandum from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on its lack of an efficient, effect...

TAG has expanded operations in Latin America, including establishing a new food safety division, TAG Latin America. TAG Latin America is ...

The Acheson Group (TAG) is one of the most informed consulting firms around FSMA.  Led by Dr. David Acheson, who was the former FDA Assoc...

Supply chain risk continues to be the fastest growing threat for most companies, and when not managed appropriately, can result in a cris...

Last week, we gave you TAG’s 17 most read articles of ’17. For this week’s newsletter, we’ve once again looked into our crystal ball to b...

Prevention of intentional adulteration (IA) is an imperative component of your overall food protection strategy.  The TAG team is well ve...