Book: An Introduction to HACCP

Aug. 23 2020 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating a salmonella outbreak affecting 68 people in nine states that could be linked to tainted peaches.

July 27 2020 Salmonella bacteria are found naturally in the intestines of animals, reptiles and birds. The bacteria are most often transmitted to people when they eat contaminated foods, which often come from animal sources, like poultry, beef, milk or eggs, but can also include fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Symptoms of salmonella typically present six to 72 hours after exposure and include fever, chills, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, headache, nausea and vomiting.

May 20 2020 The Canadian meat industry is big business. According to the Canadian Meat Council, red meat consumption and exports supported 288,000 jobs across the country in 2016. From farm to fork, it generated $15.3 billion of economic activity in Canada the same year. Normally, two Alberta plants produce around 70 per cent of the nation's federally inspected processed beef.

April 19 2020 The modern American slaughterhouse is a very different place from the one that Upton Sinclair depicted in his early-20th-century novel, The Jungle. Many are giant, sleek refrigerated assembly lines, staffed mostly by unionized workers who slice, debone and gut snatch hog and beef carcasses, under constant oversight of government inspectors. The jobs are often grueling and sometimes dangerous, but pork and beef producers boast about having some of the most he...avily sanitized work spaces of any industry. Yet meat plants, honed over decades for maximum efficiency and profit, have become major hot spots for the coronavirus pandemic, with some reporting widespread illnesses among their workers. The health crisis has revealed how these plants are becoming the weakest link in the nation’s food supply chain, posing a serious challenge to meat production.

April 16 2020 WHAT IS IN THE EXPIRY DATES OF FOOD: Food product dating, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls it, is completely voluntary for all products (with the exception of baby food, more on that later). Not only that, but it has nothing to do with safety. It acts solely as the manufacturer’s best guess as to when its product will no longer be at peak quality, whatever that means. ... Food manufacturers also tend to be rather conservative with those dates, knowing that not all of us keep our pantries dark and open our refrigerators as minimally as necessary. For me as a Food Specialist, it is more of a guarantee and feeling the sense of responsibility in order to convince the consumer to feel satisfactory while consuming the food. I do believe, expiry date also reflects the food safety as spoilage is related to the shelf life and spoilage means beyond the limit presence of microbial counts.

April 06 2020 Frequent handwashing, self-isolation, and avoiding physical contact, which are now recommended as preventive measures against the coronavirus, are some of the core principles of Islam. Prophet Muhammad’s Incredible Tips for Surviving a Pandemic is the title of an article published by Spanish newspaper ABC on Friday, April 3.