Blogs

Animal welfare audits revolutionized the meat packing industry in the early 90’s.  Temple Grandin developed the first objective scoring system...

Maintaining and improving the microbiological quality, as well as ensuring the safety of food, requires identifying the presence of both known and...

Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC), using CDC, FDA, and USDA data from 1998 to 2012, identified vegetable row crops (such as...

Consumers expect and assume their food will be safe for consumption where ever produced, purchased and enjoyed.  Today’s consumers can be confident...

Efforts to devise systems to control “hazards” in the food we eat have evolved in the last 22 years. HACCP categorizes hazards as chemical,...

Since 2013, the trade press has discussed “Meat Substitutes” (also described as “Imitation Meat,” “Fake Meat,” “Faux Meat,” “Meat Alternatives,”...

As many in the food safety community know, the largest outbreak of foodborne illness on the planet took place last year in South Africa, with 1,053...

Defining Prerequisite Programs In the HACCP Context Prerequisite Programs (PRP) are, “practices and conditions needed prior to and during...

Brian Hayek has been an Audit Specialist with FSNS C&A since 2013 performing both BRC and SQF Certification audits and is a valuable member of...

As FSNS C&A is auditing plants under FDA jurisdiction, we are evaluating each facility’s Food Safety plan for compliance under FSMA requirements...

Lori Ernst, Senior VP of Audit Services attended the 69th annual Pacific Fisheries Technologists Conference in Girdwood, Alaska from February 5-7,...

In the past year, there have been several instances of pest and rodent problems identified by regulatory agencies or otherwise made publically...