Bill Marler, arguably the leading legal mind in food safety today, is not pulling any punches when he points out the deficiencies at Jensen Farms.
www.marlerblog.com/lawyer-oped/should-brothers-ryan-and-eric-jensen-face-criminal-charges-will-producers-of-listeria-tainted-cantal/
The shocking truth is that the old ways of doing things in the produce
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Subway’s Sick FSMS
The verification of supplier food safety has emerged as a critical component of a retail operation’s Food Safety Management System (FSMS), but we continue to see Subway stress supplier safety while poor management of its own operations results in outbreaks of foodborne illness.
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A Consumer Looks at Food Safety
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A Consumer Looks at Food Safety
by Lauren Bailey
It’s a sad fact that many food safety hazards and issues are discovered by accident by a consumer. Consider any food safety scare from the…
Food Service Industry Push Back on Letter Grades
I am for a more fair system when it comes to inspections and grading. The grading numbers may not mean much, and this is because inspections are snap shots of events and there are all sorts of bias and human…
FDA and Industry-Stop Fighting and Start Cooperating
Its evident that the FDA regulated food industry does not want to pay user fees. With the political climate being what it is, FDA may not get sufficient funding to carry out its mandates.
If this is the way…
Environmental Health Down on the Farm
As an environmental health professional, I have enjoyed a successful career in hands-on food protection from farm to table. My success in this wide array of conditions has come through the effective application of environmental health principles. Nowhere in food safety today is environmental health needed more than…
Food Safety Auditors Attacked in Media Feeding Frenzy
Nothing affects everyday people every day more than the food they eat. So stories about food generate lots of interest. Of course, we all want our meals to be safe, and the industry takes precautions to try to ensure that…
Jensen’s hot potato passed to the auditor
Looks like we will not see then end of the Jensen/Frontera/ Primus Auditor issue for some time. While there is plenty of room for criticism of Jensen, Fonterra, and Primus there are also problems with FDA, and this tragic incident has become a…
Improving the effectiveness of third party food safety audits
The controversy continues over the value of third party audits in food safety at the fresh produce level, as pointed out by Professor Doug Powell at Kansas State University in his BITES blog.
Jim Prevor, produce industry analyst, says changes are…
Toilet Paper Audits and the Writing on the Wall
The noted microbiologist Mansour Samadpour has recently suggested to Bloomberg’s Stephanie Armour that (See Bill Marler’s blog)
“You can make these audits useful by writing them on toilet paper. Then someone would at least use them,” said Mansour Samadpour, president of …