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Exciting news! The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have released their communication toolkit for World Food Safety Day on June 7th, 2024! This comprehensive guide equips us with vital information on how to prepare for unexpected food safety incidents, ensuring a safer and healthier world for all. Together, we can make a difference in prioritizing food safety across the globe!  #tsi #tsiqualityservices #SafeFood #FoodSafety #WorldFoodSafetyDay

𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗘 & 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗬: No matter what spring holiday you’re celebrating, remember to keep food safety at the forefront. Here are some tips from the USDA. #HighPlainsJournal #HPJ #foodsafety #USDA

Become the next Virginia Certified Farmers Market! Follow the steps to register. Read more about the program that sets the standard for market best practices, food safety, and more below. https://lnkd.in/eSK8rJ47

Want to streamline your food safety analysis through automation? Exploring food safety monitoring, USDA expert, Steve Lehotay, advocates for change, and highlights the need for innovation in current practices to enhance routine analysis. Read article: https://lnkd.in/ecrVTBid #foodsafety #labautomation #foodscience

How can automation transform food safety analysis? Steve Lehotay, a USDA expert, shares his insights on improving accuracy and efficiency in food safety monitoring. Discover how his pioneering QuEChERS and QuEChERSER methods are advancing routine analysis and why embracing new technologies is key to streamlining lab operations Read more: https://lnkd.in/d8F5xB-q #foodsafety #labautomation

I recently attended an insightful webinar on " Root Cause Analysis: Adopting Standard Practices for the Food Industry"' by International Association for Food Protection and Ontario Food Protection Association . The session highlighted the importance of implementing systematic approaches to identify and address underlying issues in food safety and quality. The speakers provided valuable techniques and frameworks that can be applied to enhance our preventive measures and ensure compliance with industry standards. It was a great opportunity to learn from experts and connect with fellow professionals dedicated to advancing food safety practices. Looking forward to integrating these strategies into our processes! #FoodSafety #RootCauseAnalysis #IAFPWebinar

Post-Chevron, what is the future of food safety regulation? We explore potential outcomes for the industry in our latest blog. Read now: https://lnkd.in/eJ7MGajp #FoodSafety #ChevronDoctrine #Blog

The U.S. is a leading producer of pecans globally. Little food safety guidance currently exists for pecan shellers despite their significant contributions to the nation's gross domestic product. In the September/October issue of Food Protection Trends, a survey identified typical food safety practices for a subset of North American pecan shellers. Read "Food Safety Needs Assessment for North American Pecan Shellers": https://lnkd.in/gZtw6Su4

Friends and colleagues, Digital online ordering now accounts for about 40% of total restaurant sales in the US, and has grown 300% faster than dine-in sales since 2014.  The US is now the second largest online food delivery market behind China, with an estimated $218 billion in revenue in 2022 generated by digital food ordering/delivery.  Food delivery now includes next day mail order of menu items normally prepared and wrapped for immediate consumption. The augmented volume of sales that must be prepared in the same kitchen (for most of the foodservice industry) can often be too large to be accommodated by the labor needed and kitchen space/equipment design; leading to quality and food safety issues impacted by the large number of virtual customers that can order from any one kitchen via multiple delivery service apps. Several foodservice enterprises have tackled this problem using digital make-lines (Chipotle Mexican Grill), mobile ordering pick up restaurants (Chick-fil-A Restaurants), and food prep robotics (sweetgreen), but many have not and can be at higher food safety risk. I wrote this article to suggest ways the food service industry can reduce this risk highlighting many successful foodservice business models. Thank you Food Safety Magazine for always helping communicate important food safety risk and ways to reduce these risk to help our industry.

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