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PODCAST: Prioritizing Food Safety Over Audit Readiness
In a recent podcast, Bonna Cannon, president, owner and principal consultant of Bonnafide LLC, discusses how to prioritize true food safety over audit preparation, turning audit insights into operational improvements and building food safety into plant design.
Sourcing Food-Safe Tubing Systems for Food and Beverage Operations
Knowing how to find partners who can provide consistent, quality tubing that meets all regulatory requirements is essential for food manufacturing and supply chain professionals.

Designing Hygienic Drainage to Control Listeria in RTE Facilities
While Listeria remains a consistent threat in the ready-to-eat (RTE) space, experience and recall data indicate that upgraded drainage can reduce key risk vectors and provide better tools for staff and management to identify and control hazards.
3-A SSI Seeks Working Group Coordinator Consultant to Lead Standards Modernization Effort
The coordinator consultant will manage day-to-day project operations across all eight working groups — meeting facilitation, document tracking, scope management, ballot coordination and process documentation — reporting directly to the executive director.
FDA: U.S. Infant Formula is Largely Safe
Across the products tested, most samples had undetectable or very low levels of contaminants including lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, pesticides, PFAS and phthalates.
Number of Food Recalls Up: Bad or Good?
While at times the number of food safety recalls seems to be rising, in most cases, the recalls are smaller in lot size and don’t progress very far through the supply chain because the tools stop most major potential outbreaks.
UVC Disinfection Best Practices for Food, Packaging and Logistics Applications
The companies that treat UVC as a flexible, application-specific toolkit — rather than a single technology solution — will be best positioned to meet the microbial and operational challenges of the next decade.
3-A SSI Calls for Volunteers to Update Key Food Safety Standards
To ensure standards that reflect manufacturing realities, facility operations and regulatory requirements equally, 3-A SSI is recruiting voting members from three industry perspectives.
FDA, CDC Say E. coli Outbreak Connected to Raw Cheese
The agencies say E. coli samples are genetically similar, and some people reporting illnesses have consumed Raw Farm cheese. However, the company declined to recall product over no positive E. coli tests.