Food Safety & Defense

Food safety and defense is mission critical. Through its focus on issues of concern and hot topics, IFT provides viewpoints and technical resources that will enhance your understanding of additive and ingredient safety, allergens, novel technologies, and microbial and chemical contaminants. Access applicable information on best practices, risk analysis, traceability, and analytical tools in the areas of microbial and chemical food safety and defense.

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Traceability

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Food Product Tracing

Food product tracing is critical at all levels of the food system to protect public health by isolat … tracing would improve the efficiency and speed of response time following a food safety triggering … The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) announced that it will lead two pilot programs for the U.S …

Traceability

Food product tracing is critical at all levels of the food system to protect public health by isolat … tracing would improve the efficiency and speed of response time following a food safety triggering … work with the US Food and Drug Administration, IFT has released a number of documents, presentation …

Food Product Tracing

… tracing would improve the efficiency and speed of response time following a food safety triggering … FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and released by the Institute of Food Technologi … in the issue of traceability with the Food and Drug Administration, and how you and your organizati …

New Food Safety Law Addresses Product Traceability

New Food Safety Law Addresses Product TraceabilityFebruary 2011, Volume 65, No.2 … Measures to improve traceability within the U.S. food supply are among the key provisions of the FDA … many aspects of food safety, this article will examine traceability and why experts believe that th …

AFDO supports IFT traceability report

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has announced that the Association of Food and Drug Offici … recommendations to improve the speed and accuracy of product tracing throughout the food system. … an effective food product tracing system that could be globally accepted” and go on to say “AFDO ad …
Food Safety: Eggs

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Radio frequency treatment of egg white powder for quality and microbial safety … Radio frequency treatment of egg white powder for quality and microbial safety … Radio frequency treatment of egg white powder for quality and microbial safety

86-2 Egg risk assessment: What can risk assessment tell us about improving the safety of eggs?

What can risk assessment tell us about improving the safety of eggs? … LATIMER, USDA-Food Safety Inspection Services, 1400 Independence Ave. S.W., Aerospace Bldg., MC 334 … The annual US egg consumption is approximately 250 per capita with a value of 4 billion dollars.

18F-33 Total and partial replacement of whole egg with soy-, wheat-, and whey-based egg substitutes in egg noodles

… to whether or not egg substitutes can fully or partially replace eggs without significant loss in p … determine if whole egg may be totally or partially replaced with soy, wheat, and whey protein-based … Whole egg could not be totally replaced with any of the egg substitutes studied in the egg noodles w …

86-5 Current status of egg processing industry and microbiological issues

The egg processing industry has responded by providing egg products that are safe and meet quality e … of established egg pasteurization processes and overall safety of processed eggs relative to Salmon … New technical egg products such as concentrates with low water activity or enzyme-enhanced egg produ …

86-4 High pressure processing of egg-based products

… Center for Food Safety & Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, IIT Moffett Campus, 6502 S. … The possibility of using this approach to process egg-based products has been proposed. … Center for Food Safety and Technology, The Ohio State University and The US Army Natick Labs have b …
Additives and Allergens

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the specific safety tests will be dependent on what the final food ingredient product is to be—a pu … an extensive food allergy database; and works with leading researchers to improve the safety of foo … the specific safety tests will be dependent on what the final food ingredient product is to be—a pu

Food Allergies and Other Food Sensitivities

… a food or food ingredient that will elicit an adverse reaction. … reading of ingredient lists on the labels of packaged foods and a ceaseless search for more knowled … Allergy-Like Intoxications

Ten Ingredient Developments That May Impact the Future of Foods

Ten Ingredient Developments That May Impact the Future of FoodsJuly 2003, Volume 57, No.7 … couple of emerging ingredient sections were patterned after that old show, “Ripley’s Believe It or … purpose of the ingredient, I will try to determine which ingredient developments might play an incr …

Determining the Safety of Bioengineered Microorganisms

… this type of added ingredient other than as a food additive or as a Generally Recognized as Safe (G … the specific safety tests will be dependent on what the final food ingredient product is to be—a pu … tree for safety assessment of a bioengineered microorganism (BEM) Most important, the degr …

Quality Time for Food Safety

… related to food safety and quality—too many to completely cover in this article because of space li … Food Allergy Research and Resource Program … an extensive food allergy database; and works with leading researchers to improve the safety of foo …
Microbial Food Safety

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… technologies, and microbial and chemical contaminants. … in the areas of microbial and chemical food safety and defense.

Food Safety & Defense

… in the areas of microbial and chemical food safety and defense. … Radio frequency treatment of egg white powder for quality and microbial safety … Radio frequency treatment of egg white powder for quality and microbial safety

54-3 Microbial sensor tags

54-3 Microbial sensor tags

GMP basics: Avoiding microbial cross contamination

Avoiding microbial cross contamination

38-4 Anti-microbial food packaging

38-4 Anti-microbial food packaging
Foodborne Illness

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45B-5 High school students? attitudes toward foodborne illness

awareness of foodborne pathogens, perceived risk of foodborne illness or role in food shopping and p … attitudes toward foodborne illness. … awareness of foodborne illness sources; 2) assess concern for food safety; 3) determine perceived r …

Foodborne illness costs U.S. $152 B annually

Foodborne illness costs US 152 B annually Acute foodborne illnesses cost the United Sta … most impacted by foodborne illness cases related to produce. … cost of foodborne illness in the United States by summing both medical costs (hospital services, ph …

Caliciviruses: A Major Cause of Foodborne Illness

A Major Cause of Foodborne Illness … A Major Cause of Foodborne Illness CP Gerba 1 and D Kayed 1 1 Authors are with the Dept of Soil Wate … caliciviruses foodborne illness Norwalk virus HuCVs References Adler I Zickl R 1969 Winter vomiting …

Foodborne Illness

presented at NCIFT Symposium 24 APril 2007

Food safety for food service: Basic microbiology and foodborne illness

Basic microbiology and foodborne illness … and food borne illness.

Egg Safety

Product Tracing: Protecting the Public
The recent Salmonella outbreak in eggs highlights a crucial need for an effective product tracing system.

Pasteurized Eggs: A Perspective
An ePerspective article by Patricia Curtis, Professor of Poultry Science, Director of the National Egg Processing Center.