The first warning letters of the year issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a dairy operator in Pennsylvania. A warning letter is FDA’s principal means of ...
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Members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees released their consolidated?appropriations bill?for FY 2014 on Monday night, and the House of Representatives passed it with bipartisan support on Wednesday. It is also expected to ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, FDA
Members of the Safe Food Coalition and the Worker Health and Safety Coalition wrote to members of Congress this week, asking them not to reduce the budget for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service and to remove ...
Tags: HIMP, Budget Negotiations, USDA, FDA
Foodborne illness outbreaks result when two or more persons develop similar symptoms of illness (gastroenteritis) after eating a common food, or become ill after consuming food from a common source. Such events occur relatively frequently ...
Tags: Foodborne Illness, Food Safety, Food
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) received an "adequate" rating – the lowest passing grade – in the latest audit by the U.S. government to determine its equivalency on food safety standards, according to documents ...
Tags: Food Inspection, Canada's Food Inspection Agency, Lowest Passing Grade
Canadian carriers are getting different requirements from one shipper to another for exactly the same food products because there’s no uniformity in preventive control plans (PCPs) for transportation. Food safety and transportation ...
Tags: food safety, transportation
Taking place on 26-27 November at the Centro Congressi Milanofiori (opposite NH Milanofiori Hotel), Making Cosmetics is all set for its first event in Milan. With 670 visitors already pre-registered (excluding exhibitors), the signs are ...
Wegmans Food Markets, a US-based retailer, has selected PAR Technology PAR EverServ SureCheck solution for food safety measurement and intelligent checklist management. The cloud-based SureCheck system is a mobile client-based, automated ...
Tags: Wegmans Food Markets, Food Safety
In the wake of growing demand by retailers and major food brands, food packaging companies are stepping up their efforts to satisfy customers by seeking Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification. Speaking Tuesday at Pack Expo 2013, Chip Wood, ...
Tags: Packagers, Food Safety, SQF Certification
Cargill, a US-based agribusiness company, has inaugurated a $250m poultry operation in Lai’an, Anhui province, China, as part of its efforts to support the modernization of agriculture and food safety in the country. The project ...
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CHEP Australia has launched a new state-of-the-art centrifugal dryer technology it says will deliver fresh produce crates that are 80 per cent drier than those processed through tunnel dryers. Installed at the company's Scoresby service ...
Tags: Drying System, Packaging, Printing, centrifugal dryer
CHEP Australia has launched new technology for the fresh produce industry that is said to deliver an 80 per cent dryer crate, wit the claim that it makes the reusable plastic crates the driest on the market. The state-of-the-art ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, dryer
ALDI Queensland managing director Viktor Jakupec and CHEP Australia and New Zealand president Phillip Austin have jointly launched a new-generation reusable plastic crate, 'Gen 3' for the fresh produce industry at ALDI's Salisbury store in ...
Tags: Chain Transport, Service
Rigid plastic packaging producer Amcor Rigid Plastics has announced that all manufacturing facilities have earned or will earn certification by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a global retailer-driven program that seeks continuous ...
France-based bean sprouts producer Heng Sieng has installed two Ishida multihead weighers – CCW-R-214-WS-50-WP in order to automate its packing operations. According to Ishida, the new weighers deliver the necessary combination ...