Food Safety

No Tricks, Just Trusted Treats: How Retailers Can Use the SQF Certified Site Directory This Halloween

The new SQF Certified Site Directory is designed to help retailers easily identify and confirm sites holding a GFSI-benchmarked SQF food safety ...

Building on Success: Your Feedback Powers What's Next at FMI

Results of the FMI member satisfaction survey show where FMI has succeeded and how we can continue to improve your membership ...

A Collective Commitment to Food Safety

National Food Safety Education Month is more than an annual event—it’s an ongoing call to action for every American to embrace safe food handling at home, at work, during holidays, at school, and when dining out....

Photo Friday: Wegmans Facility Tour

Wegmans hosted a delegation of FMI staff and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials at the company’s Richmond, Va., distribution center....

Creating a Sustainable Food Safety Solution: Natural Choice Foods Receives FMI’s 2025 Food Safety Innovation Award

NCF has earned FMI’s 2025 Food Safety Innovation Award for its unique and impactful solution to address food waste and food safety by creating a closed-loop system for repackaging and redistributing excess food from major food manufacturers. ...

Science in Action: Celebrating World Food Safety Day 2025 in Retail

This year’s theme, “Food Safety: Science in Action,” highlights the importance of applying scientific principles throughout the supply chain to prevent foodborne ...

Food Safety Innovation Starts with a Question: What If We Could Make Food Safer?

FMI is seeking nominations by May 23, 2025, for the annual Food Safety Innovation Award. The award honors a company, organization or regulatory agency that is advancing food protection through ingenuity, leadership and ...

Retailers: Your Voice Matters in Shaping SQF Edition 10

Certification gives confidence that supply chain partners meet globally recognized food safety expectations. Edition 10 is your chance to ensure those standards stay practical, credible and aligned with real-world retail ...

Why The Food Industry Should Engage with Edition 10 of the SQF Code

Food retailers and suppliers are uniquely positioned to provide critical feedback. You understand the challenges of food safety from supplier to shelf to refine a program that benefits the entire food supply ...

Tackling Traceability, Produce, Chemicals, and Sanitation and Environmental Controls in the Year Ahead

This year's food safety priorities will focus on traceability, produce safety, chemical safety, and sanitation and environmental controls....

A Deep Dive into Reducing Cadmium in the Food Supply

To help FDA’s efforts in providing research and developing food manufacturer and consumer resources on cadmium, FMI and other associations hosted a symposium to explore health risks, regulatory frameworks, and collaborative ...

Shaping the Future of Global Food Safety

For over three decades, the Safe Quality Food (SQF) program, developed by the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI), a division of FMI, has set the gold standard for food safety and quality across.....

Let's Tackle the Real Causes of Food Inflation to Feed American Families

While it has been encouraging to see inflation cool in recent months, it’s been equally frustrating that the current political dialogue has lacked an in-depth, meaningful discussion of the economic subtleties....

Photo Friday: Innovating with USDA to Improve Nutrition Security

USDA MyPlate National Strategic Partners from across the country gathered for an in-person MyPlate Convening: Innovating to Advance Nutrition Security on July 18th at Amazon’s Arlington Headquarters....

An Increasing Focus on Chemical Contaminants

With the increased attention that chemical contaminants have gained, FMI recently formed a Chemical Contaminants Workgroup to allow member companies to collaborate and share scientific and technical ...