07
Mar
Is Selling Raw Pet Food Compatible with Current FDA Regulatory Strategy?
Since 2016, there have been more than 30 recalls of raw pet foods due to the potential or presence of microbiological contamination, prim...
28
Feb
Romaine E. coli Outbreak Report Published – PSR Inspections Start Soon
FDA’s use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) was a significant factor in its late 2018 investigation of an E. coli outbreak tracked to roma...
21
Feb
A Harbinger of Food Tracing Regulation to Come?
It will come. It was mandated back in 2011 with the signing of the Food Safety Modernization Act; and FDA contracted out a tracking pilot...
14
Feb
Foreign Objects Dominant in Recent Recalls. Could Your Product Be Next?
Rubber in popcorn chicken…hard plastic in ground beef…wood in chicken nuggets – conventional and organic. There certainly seems to be a l...
07
Feb
Are You Focused on Allergens? Regulators Are
In our November 7th newsletter, we discussed the manslaughter conviction of two U.K. food business managers for the death of a teen who d...
31
Jan
Reasonably Foreseeable RTE – With or Without Oversight
The government is reopened, FDA is back at work in full force – at least through mid-February. Did you continue to conduct top-notch food...
17
Jan
Does the Government Shutdown Really Impact Food Safety?
As of Saturday, Jan. 12, the government shutdown set a new, though rather contentious, record for the Trump Administration – becoming the...
27
Dec
The Best of 2018: Your Top 10 Blogs
This time each year we like to take look back to see what you are reading. Which TAG newsletters were most popular? What topics generated...
20
Dec
FDA’s Continued Microbial Sampling Yields New Data
In its ongoing quest to learn more about common environmental pathogens and identify patterns to reduce microbial contamination, FDA has ...
14
Dec
TAG Risk Assessment Tool-Product Demo
Learn how you can better assess supplier and product risk with the TAG Risk Assessment Tool - powered by SafetyChain Software. Drawing f...
