The New Normal Needs New EMP Environmental Monitoring Highlights: Continuous Improvement is Key COVID-19 Effect on EMPs Going Beyond the Spreadsheet Any effective environment...
Spoiler Alert: Yeast and Mold Basics Food Safety Yeast and mold are organisms of great importance to the food industry. These members of the fungi kingdom are very diffe...
Listeria monocytogenes: An Elusive and Continuing Threat Food Manufacturing Highlights: CDC investigating a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes linked to cooked diced chicken meat The un...
Sanitation and Post-Harvest Handling of Produce Sanitation Training for on-farm fruit and vegetable operations in the Produce Safety Rule is proceeding. The FDA and state departme...
Beyond Filing - What to do With Your Food Environmental Monitoring Results Environmental Monitoring The beginning of the year brings a time to evaluate the previous year and set resolutions for the next twelve months. As...
FDA Guidance for Listeria Control and Environmental Monitoring Environmental Monitoring New draft guidance, “Control of Listeria monocytogenes in Ready-To-Eat Foods: Guidance for Industry” was published by th...
Does Serotyping Have Value in Salmonella Contamination Investigations? Environmental Monitoring The identification and differentiation of bacteria date back to the late 1800s. Primary interest often focused on microo...
Finding Flexibility When You Need It Most Environmental Monitoring I recently attended the annual meeting for the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) in Tampa, Florida. I...
3 Steps to Prepare For a Swabathon Environmental Monitoring Many companies have Environmental Monitoring Programs (EMPs) setup to monitor the processing (and surrounding) environme...
What is a Swabathon?: Understanding the FDA Investigations Environmental Monitoring The top priority for most food manufacturers is protecting the food consumers eat. Yet, one of the major causes of produ...
Channel Your Inner Jerry Maguire and “Show Me the Money” Environmental Monitoring Last month, our blog, “How Much for That Doggie in the Window?” helped you determine whether your company should impleme...
How Much for That Doggie in the Window? Environmental Monitoring Over that past few months, our team has presented hundreds of product demonstrations of our digital solution, EnviroMap....
To Compliance and Beyond: Finding Intangibles Through Environmental Monitoring Environmental Monitoring Sales of our new software, EnviroMap, have continued to grow over the last few years, and this growth has allowed me the...
#ScrapTheWaste in Your Environmental Monitoring Program Environmental Monitoring We are constantly challenged to do more with less: trim the fat, reduce costs, eliminate the scrap and waste, etc. Simpl...
Using WGS to Better Decode Listeria Outbreaks Environmental Monitoring The practice of whole genome sequencing (WGS) has received a great deal of attention in the food industry and among indu...
The Maturity Model for Environmental Monitoring Environmental Monitoring For over 20 years, I have chased a variety of environmental pathogens through many different types of processing environ...