By: Kelli Windsor, Manager, Member and Digital Communications, Food Marketing Institute
The regulatory landscape in 2015 offered innumerable opportunities to help FMI members navigate the intricacies and implications surrounding the Food Safety Modernization Act. Food safety remains a number-one priority for food retailers and FMI has committed to helping its members manage risk.
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What Food Retailers Need to Know about the Food Safety Modernization Act (Note: Although we posted this in 2014, it continues to be one of our most popular blogs.)
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) represents the most sweeping change to food safety laws in over 70 years. FSMA fundamentally changes the way food is regulated in the U.S. and abroad and affects the entire supply chain from farm-to-fork. To help food retailers better understand FSMA’s impact on your business, FMI is dedicating a five-part series to the topic.
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 foodborne illness. Here are some great resources created with the Partnership for Food Safety Education, of which FMI is a partner organization, for food retailers to use to better educate shoppers about summertime food safety.
Managing the Risk of Food Recall to Keep Retailers Happy
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 you, wants a product recall to occur, however they do happen. And while recalls are certainly not easy for anyone involved, how can you make them easier on your retailer? Let’s take a step back to first understand what causes product to be pulled from store shelves. Based on data collected by SQFI, there were 2,155 global recalls reported in 2014.
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