PENN Connected – Digital Food Safety from Johnson Controls replaces clipboards with digital tools to help retail, food service and manufacturing organizations adapt to today’s unique food safety standards. The digital compliance management solution manages data monitoring, recording and reporting to ensure food is stored, prepared and consumed in a safe manner. The configurable and easy-to-use platform improves HACCP compliance, saves time and money and provides enterprise-wide insights that can be generated with just a few clicks of a button.
Metal detection today remains the backbone of food safety compliance for the majority of the industry, but especially in the chilled and frozen food sector. Specifically, simultaneous multi-frequency scanning is making it much easier for manufacturers to identify hard-to-find metals in food products with high conductivity (so-called "wet" products). These products may, literally, have high water content. Additionally, above-average conductivity may also be linked to high levels of minerals, particularly salt. These can be found in products such as bacon, or ready meals.
Diversified is a USDA-accredited and ISO 17025-certified laboratory specializing in the rapid detection and reporting of more than 600 types of chemical contaminants.
November 18, 2019
FoodChain ID, a Fairfield, Va.-based portfolio company of Paine Schwartz Partners, LLC, acquired Diversified Laboratories, LLC, Chantilly, Va., to create what is said to be the most comprehensive contaminants testing solutions offerings.
The microbiological testing facility utilizes a robust information technology platform to offer a broad spectrum of testing services across every food category.
October 30, 2019
SGS opened a new food microbiological testing laboratory at its Fairfield, N.J., headquarters location.
A recent Registrar survey revealed Kosher certification, along with non-GMO and organic certification, is top of its clients’ list of desired additional services for 2020.
October 10, 2019
STAR-K Kosher Certification, Baltimore, Md., partnered with Registrar Corp., Hampton, Va., where Registrar’s clients can explore Kosher certification and existent STAR-K Kosher-certified clients in need of FDA registration.
Environmental sampling is increasingly considered an essential part of any comprehensive food safety program, but building a program and achieving consensus internally is easier said than done.
Longhini searched for an automated alarm system to monitor the refrigerated trucks (reefer trucks).
September 5, 2019
CAS DataLoggers, Chesterland, Ohio, provided the automated food safety monitoring solution for
Longhini Sausage Co. Inc., a New Haven, Conn.-based sausage processor.
This program will develop initiatives to improve food safety in Bangladesh, Kenya, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Cambodia.
August 20, 2019
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., received $10 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, D.C., to establish what is said to be the first-ever Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety (FSIL).