How to Build Food Safety Into R&D

Food laws around the world mandate that foods, beverages, and ingredients manufactured and sold by food processors must be safe. Failure to do so may result in people becoming ill or dying, damage such as lost sales and reputation to the operation that produced the food, and even closure of the business. A foodborne outbreak also may have peripheral effects. The outbreak attributed to E. coli O157:H7 in raw spinach in 2001 adversely affected sales of frozen spinach, blanched spinach, and other i…