Avoid these common food additives

A “food additive” is any substance added to food in order to improve the safety, freshness, taste, texture, appearance, or nutritional valu...

The Truth About Food Additives

Earlier this year, a blogger made headlines when she organized a consumer protest to remove azodicarbonamide from fast food chains includin...

Best Practices with Allergen Swabbing

Allergen control is becoming an increasingly important component of the overall food safety programs for the food industry. The recent prop...

7 Simple Rules for Effective and Hygienic Dry Goods Storage

For much of my professional career as a regulator, I never paid much attention to dry goods storage. As long as the foods were properly lab...

Fermenting Veggies at Home, Follow Food Safety ABCs

Fermentation has become what USDA microbiologist Fred Breidt, Jr., describes as a “movement that’s picking up speed.” And for good reason...

Organic and Non-Organic: What’s the Difference?

With the basics behind us of what constitutes an organic product under the National Organic Program (NOP), we can move forward to comparing...

Datas Show Most Store Honey Isn’t Honey

More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively...

BBPOM Pontianak Musnahkan 1.1 Ton Mie Kuning Megandung Formalin

PONTIANAK - Balai Besar Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BBPOM) Pontianak melakukan pemusnahan mi kuning basah yang mengandung formalin dan boraks...