Food Safety

A recent SupplyChainBrain article reported on a study by Procurian which found that tighter handling of indirect spending in areas such as IT, supply chain management, marketing and energy could save big businesses millions when managed with a continuous and holistic approach. According to...

  Food Logistics reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has used its power granted by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) to shut down a peanut processing plant. This is the first time the FDA has exercised such authority since the passage of the FSMA on January 4, 2011. As...

At HighJump Software, we all agree that food and beverage traceability is a high priority as we were naturally intrigued by an interesting article that we found. Despite being signed into law nearly two years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not yet released specifics on the...

The FDA recently released a report detailing the progress made thus far in the implementation of its Food Safety Modernization Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2011. This mammoth piece of legislation represented the most significant change to the powers of the FDA in 70 years, and, as is...

I’ve been keeping my eye out for the promised string of new food safety rules initiated by the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011, which increased the power granted to the FDA to police food safety. We didn’t have long to wait. According to an article posted by Food Logistics, two new FDA...

By now food and beverage companies have had a few months to get familiar with the details of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) signed into law in January 2011 by President Obama. The act represents the first major food safety legislation in 70 years, and grants the FDA with more power to...

I admit it. I'm a politics junkie. I suppose it's something akin to the "watching a train wreck" tendency at times, but every day it's a new issue to consider and turn over in my head (and discuss with my husband during long car rides!). But recently I am hearing the same story over and over:...

Few can deny the need for better safety control in the food supply chain.  According to the CDC, 48 million people get sick from tainted food each year, and about 3,000 die annually.  So we’re all in agreement that something needs to change to make our food supply safer, and the US government is...

Happy New Year!  As we embark on a new year of sharing supply chain best practices and insights on this blog, it's fitting to look back and see which posts were the most popular in 2010.  The following is a list of the top ten posts in terms of page views. 1. Is Wal-Mart Sub Optimizing Its Extended...

Yes, I know what you’re thinking. C’mon, dirty secrets in supply chains? Dirty secrets are for contrived reality TV shows and soap operas, right? Although [we hope!] those kind of dirty secrets are absent from your food and beverage business (although it may make for more entertaining work day), you...