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EU Supply Chain Strategies can Benefit North America

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 11/23/20

By Liz Newmark As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the European food and agricultural industry is calling on member states to resist imposing unilateral restrictions on the movement of workers, goods, and services across Europe. It has welcomed the EU’s executive body recommendation for harmonized measures. Emphasizing the need for a “well-coordinated, predictable and transparent approach”, […]

Include Laboratory-Based Testing in Your Food Fraud Solution

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 7/10/19

By Cameron Scadding Innovation in analytical science methods is uncovering food safety and food fraud issues faster than ever before, but the pace of detection is moving faster than methods for prevention. Some in the industry feel this is an issue, although if science can detect anomalies that reduce the burden on human health and […]

Preventing Food Fraud: What You Need To Know

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 7/10/19

By Clare Winkel Different countries have different food fraud regulations and often they even define the words according to their own unique priorities. If you are exporting, you need to know what the legal requirements are, as well as what the term itself means in different regions of the world. However you define it, though, […]

High-Quality Traceability Key to Global Food Safety

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 4/10/19

By John Keogh Earlier this year, the Federal Department of Agriculture (FDA) released a statement about the agency’s investigation of the November 2018 outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in relation to contaminated romaine lettuce in California raising some interesting points. The FDA announcement essentially confirms what many of us have had suspicions about, and again confirms why […]

Industry-Government Collaboration: The Changing Role of Controlling Bodies

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 4/05/19

By Cesare Varallo Our first blog post in this series looked at why changes are needed in the regulatory systems affecting imported food, and how the EU is dealing with this crucial issue. Today’s blog post examines the approach being taken by Canada and the United States. After an evaluation that started back in 2016 […]

Japan’s Food Safety Systems Get Global Recognition

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 3/12/19

By Lois Harris Pulling together a globally-recognized food safety certification system in a nation in which the vast majority of traditional food manufacturers are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seems like a nearly impossible task. But Japan has done it. In late 2018, the Japan Food Safety Management Association and the Japan GAP Foundation received […]

New Food Safety Rules for Imports: EU Focuses on Prevention, Record of Compliance

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 3/11/19

By Cesare Varallo First in a two-part series In a world of growing complexity and fast-moving international trade, ensuring the safety of food is becoming a daunting task for the controlling authorities, especially when it comes to enforcing domestic food safety requirements on imported food. Indeed, while trade is expanding, the amount of resources available […]

Blockchain Poised to Boost Efficiency for Food Manufacturers

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 2/13/19

By Tomaž Levak The blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) have come a long way in the past year. The hype that was largely connected with the Bitcoin cryptocurrency has slowed down, but innovation on the enterprise side is stronger than ever. In the past year, a number of pilot projects were successfully launched across […]

Ensuring Food Safety in Your Organic Products

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 1/25/19

By Tim Livingstone Concerns over the health implications of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, the pharmaceuticals given animals raised for their meat, and the environmental damage attributable to the chemicalization of farming, have helped make organic food increasingly popular over the past decade or so. There is also a growing concern over the factory-like conditions in which […]

Capacity Building and Legislation Are Key to Food Safety in Emerging Nations

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 8/09/18

By Lauren Solar The Foreign Supplier Verification Rule that the US Food and Drug Administration has introduced recently as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) now puts the onus for ensuring food safety in emerging nations into the hands of first-world food retailers and manufacturers who wish to import into the United States. […]

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