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Does USDA Prescribe a PCR Platform for Food Pathogen Testing?

September 3, 2026

When the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS) changes the analytical methods used within its laboratory network, it can raise questions for laboratories and food manufacturers using other methods. Does a chan ...

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Aflatoxin M1 in Dairy: What Dairy Processors Need to Know

August 24, 2026

Aflatoxin M1 risk can begin upstream of the dairy plant when animals consume feed contaminated with Aflatoxin B1. This article explains how AFM1 reach ...

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Food Safety

Enterprise Security, Verified: SureTrend® Is Now SOC 2 Type II Certified

August 14, 2026

What Is SOC 2 Type II?  SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) is an auditing framework developed by the American Institute of Certified Publ ...

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Food Safety Culture in High-Risk Manufacturing: From Compliance to Confidence

August 10, 2026

Passing an audit is important, but it does not necessarily show what happens across every shift. Drawing on insights from Colin Oliver of Produco and ...

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Beyond Sterility Testing: Smarter UHT Finished Product Quality Control

July 31, 2026

Explore how UHT and aseptic manufacturers can improve finished product quality control through validated processing, packaging integrity, rapid microb ...

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Can You Really Trust Your PCR Results? Here's What Determines the Answer

July 24, 2026

A PCR result can tell you whether a pathogen was detected. What it can't tell you is whether your testing program is robust enough to suppo ...

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Beyond Compliance: 10 Food Safety Lessons Every Indian Food Manufacturer Should Know

June 29, 2026

At Hygiena's World Food Safety Day conferences in Kochi and Ahmedabad, food safety professionals gathered to discuss some of the industry's biggest ch ...

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Food Safety

How Hygiena is Closing the Digital Gap in Dairy

May 26, 2026

A new study reveals that digital transformation in U.S. dairy food safety is uneven, costly and complicated. For each challenge, the stakes in the pla ...

3 Reasons Why Rapid Microbiological Testing is Essential for UHT vs ESL 'Milk' Products

Food Safety

3 Reasons Rapid Microbiological Testing Matters for UHT, ESL and Dairy-Alternative Beverages

May 26, 2026

As demand grows for UHT, ESL and dairy-alternative beverages, manufacturers are under increasing pressure to extend shelf life, protect product qualit ...

Food Safety

From "May Contain" to Quantified Risk: Building a Modern Risk-Based Allergen Management Program

May 25, 2026

Update (July 2026): At CAC49 in Geneva, the Codex Alimentarius Commission formally adopted the risk-based precautionary allergen labeling guidelines d ...

Food Safety

It’s Time for Food Safety Labs to Move PCR Results to the Cloud

April 16, 2026

Managing PCR results with spreadsheets and paper records creates serious risks: transcription errors, delayed responses to positive pathogen results, ...

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