New Food Safety Rules on the Way
A long-overdue overhaul of U.S. food safety regulations looks to be inevitable after a Senate committee recently approved a bill to increase the federal government’s oversight of the food industry....
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The Food Safety and Modernization Act (S.510) of 2010 is the first major overhaul of the FDA’s food safety provisions since 1938. And after a year that saw recalls of numerous processed foods, meats...
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October Issue of Risk Management Now Online
The October issue of Risk Management magazine is now online. The cover story, “Immovable Objects,” focuses on how complacent boards of directors fear change, often retaining CEOs past the expiration...
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Hundreds Arrested in China for Food Safety Violations
Regulators in China have decided to crack down on food safety violators. Since last month, Chinese police have seized 350 suspects involved in 120 food-related criminal cases. With the Chinese Lunar...
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Monitoring Food Safety from Farm to Fork
BALTIMORE—The Food and Drug Administration is increasingly harnessing data-driven, risk-based targeting to examine food processors and suppliers under the Food Safety Modernization Act. At this week’s...
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Five Questions with a Food Fraud Expert
BALTIMORE—After his Food Safety Summit session on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration, I caught up with Doug Moyer, a pharmaceutical fraud expert and adjunct with Michigan State...
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Ensuring Food Safety with Monte Carlo Simulation
If you have ever purchased a hot dog from a street vendor, you have probably wondered (most likely after the first bite), “Is this going to make me sick?” But thanks to a number of new advances, from...
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Chipotle Food-Borne Illness Outbreaks Highlight Supply Chain, Reputation Risks
For the past month, Chipotle Mexican Grill has been mired in a food safety crisis. An e. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle has sickened at least 52 people in nine states. In a seemingly unrelated...
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Legal Woes Highlight Dangers of the Food Industry Supply Chain
A spate of recent cases offers a clear warning for the food industry about the legal and reputational perils of not getting more serious about supply chain control. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court...
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Chipotle Provides Yet More Reminders of D&O and Food Safety Risks
If the average food safety crisis or product recall forces companies to weather a storm, Chipotle has spent the past year trying to weather a category 4 hurricane. Now months into their recovery...
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