Food Safety Magazine

Dairy/Eggs

Blue-Ribbon Quality Yields Gallons of Pride at Wendt’s Dairy
Blue-Ribbon Quality Yields Gallons of Pride at Wendt’s Dairy

Top of the line CIP systems and sanitizers can win top honors for safety and quality.


The Value of Economics in Rulemaking: Examples From “The Egg Rule”
The Value of Economics in Rulemaking: Examples From “The Egg Rule”

All FDA regulations are required to include an economic analysis of the regulation’s impact on the public health and industry.

A Real-life Food Defense Challenge: Bulk Milk Transportation
A Real-life Food Defense Challenge: Bulk Milk Transportation

The dairy industry presents unique challenges to addressing food protection, particularly in the area of bulk milk transportation.

Enhancing the Safety of Dairy and Other Animal Based Foods
Enhancing the Safety of Dairy and Other Animal Based Foods

This article discusses some of the many priority issues the Division of Dairy and Egg Safety is currently working on to better protect American consumers.

Food and Dairy Lab Finds Rapid E. coli Test Easier To Use
Food and Dairy Lab  Finds Rapid <i>E. coli</i> Test Easier To Use

Food processors sometimes look for alternatives to outsourcing their food safety testing.


Protecting Your Food Supply: A Practical Approach
Protecting Your Food Supply: A Practical Approach

Food and food products are easily accessible at multiple points in any manufacturing process; thus, we must ask how we can safeguard our food supply from intentional contamination?

A Life Cycle Approach to Food Safety and Sustainability
A Life Cycle Approach to Food Safety and Sustainability

As with nutrition research, the dairy industry values science as the foundation for its commitment to sustainability and food safety.

Radlo Foods Hatches a High-Tech Egg Safety Plan
Radlo Foods Hatches a High-Tech Egg Safety Plan

Radlo Foods describes their innovative approach to egg safety.

Animal Welfare and Food Safety
Animal Welfare and Food Safety

When we debate how animals should be treated, we are also debating the safety of our food.


Food Safety Challenges in the Dairy Industry
Food Safety Challenges in the Dairy Industry

Legal pasteurization, coupled with a comprehensive food safety program, can greatly reduce or eliminate the possibility of foodborne illness resulting from dairy products.

Egg-cellent Food Safety Strategies at Primera Foods
Egg-cellent Food Safety Strategies at Primera Foods

A case study of the innovative food safety approach used at Primera Foods.

Keeping Up Dairy’s Grade A Food Safety Initiatives
Keeping Up Dairy’s Grade A Food Safety Initiatives

An interview with Allen R. Sayler, International Dairy Foods Association, focuses on the dairy industry’s food safety initiatives.
 

NCIMS Voluntary HACCP Program Moo-ves Forward
NCIMS Voluntary HACCP Program Moo-ves Forward

An important advantage for both state regulatory agencies and dairy processing plants is that HACCP implementation fosters a cooperative team approach.

Food Safety and Quality Challenges of Creating Novel, Multi-ingredient Dairy Products
Food Safety and Quality Challenges of Creating Novel, Multi-ingredient Dairy Products

Exotic spices are increasingly finding their way into dairy products, necessitating new approaches to manage dairy product safety and quality.

An FDA Update on Egg Safety
An FDA Update on Egg Safety

Reduction of Salmonella Enteritidis in eggs has been a focus of the egg industry, consumer groups, research scientists and the federal government for the last decade.

Egg Safety: Avoiding Shell Shock at Retail
Egg Safety: Avoiding Shell Shock at Retail

Approaches to egg safety in retail food establishments are presented and discussed.


Making the Case for Caging: Improvements in Egg Safety and Animal Welfare
Making the Case for Caging: Improvements in Egg Safety and Animal Welfare

Despite occasional claims to the contrary, specialty eggs are no safer than conventional eggs, and all eggs are relatively safe.