New equipment from Advanced Detection Systems’, Eriez, Fortress Technology, and more!

New equipment from Axiflow, Burkert, Coperion, and more!

Brenham, Texas-based ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries L.P. agreed to plead guilty to charges it shipped contaminated products linked to a 2015 listeriosis outbreak, said the U.S. Department of Justice.

BNP Media, organizer of the Food Safety Summit, said that in response to the serious outbreak of the coronavirus, it has postponed the summit, originally scheduled for May 4-7, 2020, to Oct. 19-22, 2020.

Blue Bell Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling all of its products currently on the market made at all of its facilities including ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet and frozen snacks because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

3-A Accepted Practices and the Grade A Pasteurized Milk Ordinance guide dairy processors in producing safe foods. 

The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy released voluntary best practices for enhanced dairy traceability. The practices were designed to increase global competitiveness, help satisfy future requirements of FSMA and quickly isolate products in the event of a safety issue.