FOCUS Summer 2023 Brexit: A Food Safety Challenge

Click here to read FOCUS Summer 2023 Brexit - A Food Safety Challenge by Thomas Gray  

https://globalfoodsafetyforum.org/2023/08/focus-summer-2023-brexit-a-food-safety-challenge-3/

 

A Cautionary Tale for the Grill

 The CDC issues this cautionary advice for July 4:  “clean, separate, cook and chill”.  WHO’s advice—wash, wash, wash, and wash!  On June 30, USDA issued recalls of 83,165 lbs of hot dog meat products in Michigan & South Carolina.  Fire-up the BBQ with caution!!

More Dangers for Food Safety

A minus for food safety in the global circular economy:  IT systems, adversaries are attacking operational technology (OT) systems because they’re easy targets; many processors willing to pay ransoms to get up and running again. What happens to tracking data; how is it retrieved--a plus for food fraud? 

 

World Food Safety Day!

 

Today is World Food Safety Day, celebrating the work of Codex Alimentarius and food standards in general.  With global supply chains in jeopardy, the importance of collaboration should never be underrated nor ignored.

Food Safety Inspections Hampered by COVID-19

New EU report shows food safety inspections hampered by COVID 19 --  from 16.9 million EU sites in 2021, 5 million were checked and there were around 1 million non-compliances.  Of those nearly half received administrative sanctions and nearly 8,000 received judicial actions. 

 

Spring 2023 Edition of FOCUS -- AI and Food Safety

FOCUS, GFSF’s e-newsletter,  is pleased to feature an article on AI and Food Safety: http://globalfoodsafetyforum.org/2023/05/focus-spring-2023/ .  Mr. Lu, GIC Group Senior Analyst, concludes, “…AI is transforming food safety by improving food quality and efficiency across the value chain.”    AI apps for food safety are at an early stage but the benefits are striking.