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Food Quality - December/January 2014
  
  
  
 
        December/January 2014 
 Volume 20 | Number 6        
  
  
   
 - Making Food Safer Through Law and Technology
 - Fonterra: The Road Back to Trust
 - Pre-Employment Screening
 - Vibrios and Human Health
 - Food Recalls : How Does the GFSI Fit?
 - The Paperless Microbiology Laboratory
 - Shutting the Door on Pathogens
 - FDA's Systems Recognition
Feature Stories
Making Food Safer Through Law and Technology
As efforts for new legislation emerged during 2013, innovative technologies and services were also introduced to meet the growing demands put upon food processors.

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  Fonterra: The Road Back to Trust
In August, Fonterra initiated a precautionary recall of 38 tons of its whey protein, advising the eight customers, including three food companies, two beverage companies, and three animal feed producers in a half a dozen countries, that had received the ingredient potentially affected with Clostridium botulinum.
Regulatory Report
Systems Recognition: Designation Will Be Challenging for Most Countries
The FDA is developing procedures for evaluating the food safety and inspection regimes of foreign countries to determine whether they are “comparable” with those of the U.S. Obtaining “comparable” status will be beneficial because food exporters and U.S. importers will enjoy a streamlined process devoid of much of the additional red tape and scrutiny expected under FSMA.
Safety & Sanitation
Attitudes and Aptitudes Essential in Employee Selection
Pre-employment screening of job candidates is important to make certain that companies get the employees they want for food safety positions, according to experts in the fields of recruitment, evaluation, and resource development.
Avoid Stagnancy: Only Settle for Dynamic Pest Programs
Since pest activity constantly fluctuates based on facility conditions and seasonality, stagnant is the last word by which you want to describe the pest management program at your facility. It should instead be dynamic and change as necessary over time according to pest activity and trends.
Manufacturing & Distribution
Shutting the Door on Pathogens
After raw food hits the delivery dock at the processing facility, it can travel hundreds of feet through various rooms as it is transformed into packaged product. Food can be exposed to any number of contaminants at the critical control points.
News & Notes
Important Industry Announcements

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In The Lab
The Paperless Microbiology Laboratory
By adopting a Laboratory Information Management System as its backbone and using automated microbiology equipment, Westward Laboratories has developed almost production line techniques to handle sample throughput.
Quality Control
Increasing Risk and Regulation Drives Change in Recall Management
What does the globalization of the food supply, the increase in co-manufacturing and private label manufacturing, advances in technology, increasing consumer sophistication and demand for information, and new regulations all have in common? Each individually, and collectively, contribute to the risk of experiencing a product recall.
Food Recalls: How Does the GFSI Fit?
Because GFSI-certified facilities use rigorous prevention programs, the question arises—do these facilities have fewer recalls in the U.S. compared to those non-GFSI certified?
Other Articles
GM Foods: Can We Afford for States to Set Their Own Regulations?
Besides unintended consumer consequences, food quality and safety managers would have to manage conflicting GMO labeling standards for identical products across multiple states.
Vibrios and Human Health
Testing new depuration protocols to reduce the rate of Vibrio-related illnesses from oysters.
William Frear Made a Case for Food Purity Laws
Commercial foods in the latter half of the 19th century were largely unregulated, opening the door for adulteration by adding chemicals to enhance flavor and even covering up and reusing food that had gone bad.
 
  
  
 

 
  
   
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