Expert Commentary

RSS

Fresh Italian sausage is a product that continues to increase in popularity.

Momentum is decidedly negative in the U.S. pork market at the moment.

Barring late action by Congress or an eleventh-hour ruling from a federal appeals court, Vermont will soon become the first state in the U.S. to implement a mandatory GMO-labeling regime.

Over my short 25 years as a “meat head” I have witnessed a continual expansion of the rules for labeling our products.

Under the new Human Illness Standard, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is launching criminal investigations against food companies whenever their products cause an outbreak.

On April 6, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published in the Federal Register its long-awaited final rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food (Final Rule).

How well your company handles and recovers from a recall will depend almost exclusively on how well you develop and nurture your recall planning strategies today.

Whether to standardize equipment and spare parts is one of the enduring debates of engineering, maintenance and spare parts management.

In 2015, 96 humane handling enforcement actions were posted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Web site.

The revised FSIS directive instructs inspection program personnel (IPP) on how to verify that meat and poultry establishments identify, segregate and properly hold adulterated product that has been returned to the establishment or has been received by the establishment for further processing.