by ngp2021 | Dec 27, 2019 | FSMA, Latest News, Regulatory Updates
Anyone like romaine lettuce? Caesar salad perhaps? Personally, I eat a lot of romaine lettuce and Caesar salad. I’m one of the sensitive people that if the lettuce isn’t washed about 8 times I’ll get an intestinal “thing” after eating some of the lettuce....
by Cathy Alinovi | Jan 29, 2019 | Latest News, Our Stories, Regulatory Updates
As an industry playing nice doesn’t seem to be creating any advantage. Twenty raw food recalls occurred in 2018 – in only one case was illness associated with the product; the manufacturer in question was not using USDA sourced and passed meats. We could...
by Cathy Alinovi | Dec 31, 2018 | Latest News
Believe it or not, this is not a post about New Year’s resolutions; it’s about putting your best foot forward for business in 2019. In spite of a federal government shutdown, many state department of agriculture begin their inspection sampling protocols in the first...
by Cathy Alinovi | Sep 7, 2018 | FSMA, Latest News
5-log reduction refers to pathogen control. The term is primarily used in the food industry. For example, if a surface or product has 100,000 bacterial microbes, a 5-log reduction would reduce that number to zero. In 7-log reduction, 10 million microbes will be killed...
by Cathy Alinovi | May 19, 2017 | Latest News
Certainly, this is not a topic ANY pet food manufacturer wants to consider (…but would be wise to do so). Because they manufacture the top 2% of pet foods, our members are constantly under scrutiny, including by the FDA and state departments of agriculture. This...
