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25th Food Safety Summit returns to Chicago

Four-day event will feature keynote presentation, town hall, plus much more.

April 5, 2023

The Food Safety Summit, the annual tradeshow for food safety professionals, will celebrate 25 years when it returns to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill., from May 8 to 11. The conference program, developed by an Educational Advisory Board (EAB), will feature sessions led by industry thought leaders.

NSF attains accreditation to provide third-party certification of FDA food safety requirements

NSF’s import supplier certification program is now authorized to certify foreign supplier compliance with Food Safety Modernization Act regulations.

February 26, 2019

NSF’s import supplier certification program is now authorized to certify foreign supplier compliance with Food Safety Modernization Act regulations.

Food safety

Icicle's traceability feature addresses recall challenges

April 14, 2016

Icicle's new enhanced traceability feature helps small and mid-sized food producers address recall challenges.

Plant of the Year: Bel Brands' plant manager discusses quality, food safety

Readers of Dairy Foods magazine and dairyfoods.com helped select the 2013 Plant of the Year. Over a six-week period this summer, website visitors reviewed 13 nominated plants and voted for the Plant of the Year.

Ed Blascak

August 22, 2013

Readers of Dairy Foods magazine and dairyfoods.com helped select the 2013 Plant of the Year. Over a six-week period this summer, website visitors reviewed 13 nominated plants and voted for the Plant of the Year. All 13 nominees had been visited by Dairy Foods editors and were published in the previous 18 months. More than 2,700 votes were cast.

Quality on the Line

Controlling listeria in a dairy plant

The dairy industry has learned quite a bit about Listeria since a major outbreak in 1985.

Henry Randolph

June 15, 2013

The dairy industry has learned quite a bit about Listeria since a major outbreak in 1985. Controlling Listeria is an issue of effective cleaning, not sanitizer effectiveness.

Transportation’s role in food safety

FSMA has shifted the focus from responding to contamination to preventing it. This includes transportation, in addition to processing, packaging, sales and consumption.

Walter Weart

May 17, 2013

Food safety is receiving a significant amount of attention. This puts more emphasis on the transport portion for the producer-to-market cycle.

Northeast Indiana says it is friendly to Dairy Processing

A regional development agency seeks food processors. Edy’s ice cream thrives because of a large supply of cream, the transportation infrastructure, low energy rates and a strong labor force.

Sarah M. Kennedy

May 13, 2013

With sales from dairy operations more than doubling over the past 10 years, Indiana has become one of the fastest-growing dairy states, according to the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Defending dairy plants

Food defense is way beyond food safety. Search the FDA’s mitigation strategies database for ideas how to improve security around a blend tank, pasteurizer or other equipment.

Clay Detlefsen

April 17, 2013

For the last 10 years, I have been working closely with federal and state government officials on the prevention of intentional contamination of food, or what is known in our government as food defense.

Food safety: The case for environmental pathogen sampling

Controlling environmental pathogen sources is a key component of food safety systems in dairy processing plants.

Matthew Stasiewicz Robert Ralyea Martin Wiedmann DVM, Ph.D

April 17, 2013

With a few exceptions (for example, raw milk cheeses), dairy processing includes a highly effective kill step that effectively controls pathogens that may be present in the raw material, and specifically raw milk.

Use benchmarks to improve food safety

Establish a dairy product benchmarking system to provide easy-to-understand data that compares key food safety indicators against target food safety goals.