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Thankful for food safety

In Featured Posts, Food Safety by Prof

This is the time of years when the food sections of nearly every newspaper and food website will contain articles on food safety and tips to make sure your holidays are disease-free. No matter, the odds are that there will be plenty of day-after stories of people eating under-cooked turkey, …

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When you need results yesterday

In Featured Posts, Food Safety by Prof

In just about every manufacturing industry, whether the products are cars, phones, or foods, it is absolutely essential that finished products meet quality expectations and safety requirements.  However, for food, there is another critical requirement – namely, the methods used to validate safety must also be rapid.  This is because …

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Recalls

In Featured Posts, Food Safety by Prof

For reasons we will discuss in class, food recalls are now a very common occurrence.  As mentioned earlier during the allergens unit, most food recalls are for undeclared allergens (e.g., when soy or milk or wheat or other allergenic ingredients) gets inadvertently added to a food.  While these can be …