Food Safety

Our Voice of The Food Industry blog offers commentary from FMI subject matter experts on timely and important topics to the food industry.

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  • Help Shoppers Avoid “Danger Zone” with GO 40 °F or BELOW

    Sep 28, 2015
    Retailers’ commitment to reducing the risk of foodborne illness expands beyond the store walls into the home of customers. With the support of the FMI Foundation and other industry partners, the nonprofit Partnership for Food Safety Education is ...

  • Corporate Executive Liability for Food Safety Violations-Peanut Corp. of America

    Sep 22, 2015
    The sentencing and the associated PCA Salmonella outbreak are especially timely as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) begins its final stage of implementing FSMA. Last week, the agency published final rules on preventive controls for human and ...

  • Food Safety is a Must When it Comes to Family Meals

    Sep 21, 2015
    To many the task of preparing a family meal can be overwhelming, even more so if one is not comfortable in the kitchen. Fifty years ago, home economics classes were apart of the regular course schedule of high school students; today, few, if any, ...

  • September is almost here—Have you planned your Food Safety Month activities yet?

    Aug 25, 2015
    September 2015 marks the 21st National Food Safety Education Month. The focus of National Food Safety Education Month is to educate and increase consumer awareness on the importance of proper food safety practices. Communicating food safety ...

  • Listeria – Beyond the Deli

    Jul 28, 2015
    For retailers, “Listeria,” “food safety,” and “retail delis” are words that commonly go together. However the FMI Food Protection Committee Listeria workgroup is developing recommendations to combat Listeria beyond the retail deli and take the ...

  • How Food Retailers Help Maintain the Produce Cold Chain

    Jul 21, 2015
    FMI had the opportunity to participate in a symposium at IFT 15 titled “Cold Chain for Produce Safety: The Status Quo and Technologies to Minimize Food Safety Risk.” For retailers, the produce department is a key differentiator along with other ...

  • VQIP: FDA’s fast track for importers

    Jul 13, 2015
    According to USDA Economic Research Service, from 2000-2014 the volume of food imports increased 7.8 percent. FDA regulates more than $49 billion worth of food imports and oversees more than 377,000 food facilities, 154,000 domestic food facilities ...

  • Best Food Industry Career: Food Systems Auditing

    Jul 10, 2015
    The competencies of an auditor extend beyond food safety, encompassing a broad range of interpersonal skills, including the capacity to communicate to people at all levels and the ability to collect objective information through effective ...

  • Summertime Food Safety

    Jun 30, 2015
    When I think about summertime, my first thought is all the delicious food—BBQ, grilled fish, fresh watermelon and sweet corn. Summer offers an opportunity for grocers to remind customers of proper food handling and storage techniques to prevent ...

  • Managing the Risk of Food Recall to Keep Retailers Happy

    Jun 24, 2015
    There are many ways that suppliers can make retailers happy: healthy options, affordable products, sustainable sourcing, and reduced waste are only a few. What about simpler recalls? Or better yet, fewer or no recalls at all? No one, least of all ...

  • Connecting with SQFI at FMI Connect

    May 29, 2015
    Today’s consumers are striving to be more educated about the food they’re eating and providing their families, which leads to questions regarding the safety, quality and ethics about the manufacturing and distribution of their food. One link in the ...

  • Why Food Safety and Crisis Communications Professionals Should Be Best Friends

    May 27, 2015
    Whether a food recall, a new food safety news story or questions about the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) implementation, as the food safety and communications professionals at FMI we’re pretty much inseparable when these topics arise. That’s ...

  • 5 Reasons to Attend The FMI Foundation Retail Food Safety Forum

    Apr 29, 2015
    Food safety is the industry's top priority. We’ve designed this year’s Retail Food Safety Forum to help attendees be on the cutting edge. Here are our top 5 reasons to join us in Chicago this ...

  • Benefits of Traceability Beyond Food Safety

    Apr 22, 2015
    Product tracing used to be something we needed when things went wrong – when there was a recall or a food safety investigation. But now, product tracing has gone mainstream and has benefits well beyond food safety. ...

  • What Food Retailers Need to Know about the Food Safety Modernization Act

    Apr 10, 2015
    The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) fundamentally changes the way food is regulated in the U.S. and abroad and affects the entire supply chain from farm-to-fork. FMI has broken down the changes to help food retailers better understand FSMA’s ...