food safety

IFPS updates PLU database, takes steps toward sustainability standardization

February 16, 2024 – The International Federation for Produce Standards (IFPS) has completed the transition to a significantly improved website...

1 year ago 1 minute read

Food safety working group to meet at FPAA Spring Policy Summit 2024

(Tubac, Arizona) – The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas (FPAA) BB #:144354 is pleased to announce that the North...

1 year ago 3 minute read

Produce Traceability Initiative releases FSMA 204 implementation guidance

For Immediate Release: February 13, 2024 In November 2022, US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released the “FSMA Final Rule...

1 year ago 2 minute read

BrightFarms recalls salad kit containing cheese associated with Listeria outbreak

IRVINGTON, N.Y., Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — In response to a voluntary recall initiated by Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc. who produces and supplies cheese...

1 year ago 2 minute read

Ready Pac recalls four salads with cheese related to Listeria outbreak

IRWINDALE, Calif., Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — With the safety of its consumers being a top priority Ready Pac Foods, Inc. has...

1 year ago 3 minute read

Fresh Express recalls salads with cheese related to Listeria outbreak

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — As a consequence of a recall initiated by a cheese supplier, Rizo-Lopez Foods, Inc., Fresh Express...

1 year ago 3 minute read

Trader Joe’s recalls salads, dressing tied to Listeria outbreak in dairy

Company Announcement: Trader Joe’s of Monrovia, CA is recalling certain products containing cotija cheese, as the cheese used to make...

1 year ago 2 minute read

Maryland company recalls soybean sprouts because of possible health risk

FDA released this company announcement February 01, 2024: Nam & Son of MD, Jessup, MD is recalling one-pound bags of...

1 year ago 2 minute read

CPS to start 10 new food safety projects

Woodland, CA, January 24, 2024 – To help answer the fresh produce industry’s most urgent food safety questions, Center for...

1 year ago 5 minute read

Remedies for cantaloupe’s food safety problems

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may have ruled that the latest string of outbreaks of cantaloupe-linked salmonella is over,...

1 year ago 3 minute read

FDA declares Salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupe over

January 19, 2024 — The FDA and CDC, in collaboration with Canadian, state and local partners, investigated an outbreak of...

1 year ago 3 minute read

EFI introduces customized audits

WASHINGTON, January 15, 2024 – Equitable Food Initiative, BB #:385632 the capacity-building and certification organization that partners with growers, farmworkers,...

1 year ago 3 minute read

BrightFarms recalls spinach and salad kits

Selinsgrove, PA (January 17, 2024) –– BrightFarms BB #:344991 has issued a voluntary recall of spinach grown by its supplier Element...

1 year ago 3 minute read

Associated Food Stores to use Procurant software

January 11, 2024 WATSONVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Procurant, a collaborative software platform for retail grocers, has been selected to provide perishables purchasing...

1 year ago 2 minute read

Kings River becomes first in citrus on traceability compliance

SALT LAKE CITY January 11, 2024 – Kings River Packing, BB #:115305 an eighth-generation citrus grower and distributor along California’s...

1 year ago 2 minute read

Another lawsuit filed in cantaloupe outbreak

HOUSTON, Dec. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The national food safety law firm of Ron Simon & Associates has filed another...

1 year ago 3 minute read

Bean sprouts recalled over Listeria risk

Company Announcement Chang Farm, Whatley, MA, {BB #:283248}} is recalling 12 oz Nature’s Wonder Mung Bean Sprouts, with the sell-by...

1 year ago 2 minute read

Listeria concerns prompt fresh spinach recall in seven states

Company Announcement Fresh Express BB #:115030 has issued a voluntary recall of a Fresh Express Spinach, 8 oz. size, with...

1 year ago 2 minute read
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