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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Everyone in dairy companies, including corporate management, has increased their focus on food safety over the past two years.