In recent years, animal-derived food safety issues have attracted much attention. Misapplication of contraband medicines, excessive or blind medication and not following the withdrawal period to continue despite repeated prohibition. The excessive amount of veterinary drug residues in foods caused...

A poor food safety culture has been described as an emerging risk factor for foodborne illness outbreaks, yet there has been little research on this topic in the retail food industry. The purpose of this study was to identify and validate conceptual domains around food safety culture and develop an ...

Rework is a common practice in the dairy industry for processors to minimize waste while recovering costs from products that are unsaleable. Regulations related to reworking fluid dairy products are focused on product safety; however, rework in the fluid milk industry and its implications for...

The Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) and the Food Research Institute (FRI) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison partnered again to host a food safety-related symposium on 27 to 30 September 2021. As a follow-up to the 2019 IFSH/ F R1 symposium, which addressed how microbiological...

Spoilage of high-temperature, short-time (HTST)- and vat-pasteurized fluid milk due to the introduction of gram-negative bacteria postpasteurization remains a challenge for the dairy industry. Although processing facility-level practices (e.g., sanitation practices) are known to impact the...

The food truck industry is rapidly growing, and yet the policies governing this segment of the food service industry are inconsistent or lack enforcement. This study explored food truck owners' and managers' attitudes toward food safety training. the challenges of providing food safety training,...

Farmers markets have grown exponentially in the past two decades; however, there is an increasing need to ensure that fresh produce and other ready-to-eat food commodities sold directly to consumers are safe and free of microbial contamination. Therefore, it is crucial to equip managers and vendors ...

Foodborne infections in the United States affect racial-ethnic minority and low-income populations at higher rates than the general population. To identify the prevalence of food safety behaviors and demographic characteristics associated with food handling practices among a susceptible, high-risk...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s final rule, "Current Good Manufacturing Practice, Hazard Analysis, and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food" (the CGMP & PC rule) (48), requires a facility that has identified hazards requiring preventive controls to verify that the preventive...

Aquatic products are one of the sources of high-quality meals, non-standard use of pesticides have polluted the water source of fishery breeding, and the quality and safety of aquatic products are facing a great threat. The supervision and sampling inspection of drug residues in aquatic products...