Food Safety

SwineCast 0464 Show Notes:

• Dr David Acheson shares the key issues for the Food and Drug Administration in dealing with food safety and traceability, from the NIAA ID/Info Expo conference in KC.

SwineCast 0452 Show Notes: 

• Professor Philip Lowe of the University of Newcastle, England, discusses his findings in a report to U.K. government and industry with suggestions for expansion of practice and underwriting education costs for food animal vets.   Learn more in Unlocking Potential: A report on veterinary expertise in food animal production

SwineCast 0437 Show Notes:

• Expanded FDA jurisdiction and inspections of animal agriculture operations in the name of food safety continue to play in Washington.  A few changes since the World Pork Expo don't lessen the potential seriousness of this issue as we talk with Dr Jen Greiner

SwineCast 0427

• The Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HAACP) concept is not broken, so why is Congress trying to fix it?
  
  National Pork Producers Council’s Dr. Jan Greiner brings us up to date on current legislative activity that expands the U S Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) investigative powers on your farm and feed processing facility.
  

SwineCast 0374 Show Notes:

• Food safety conversation with Maple Leaf representatives following the massive recall last year.  What went wrong... and what they did right
• Speakers at the Center for Food Integrity's Annual Summit look at food safety as a key component of consumer trust and business profitability

     Food is far more than calories or nutrition.  It defines a people and is often associated with identity, culture, and the fabric of life that bonds families, regions and even nations together.  Food celebrates holidays and holy days in virtually every culture on earth so there is very little in this world more destructive to a brand or to trust in a process or supply chain than to deliberately poison food, especially if the tainted product is largely destined for children.  In a stunning example of irresponsible and unethical behavior, milk processors in China have done ju

SwineCast 0251 Show Notes:

• Friday's Supply/Demand report breakout
• Chinese food safety cooperation talks
• Melamine recap with Dr. Steve Ensley with the Iowa State Diagnostic Lab
• PRRSv assessment program
  

SwineCast 0250 Show Notes:

• Bioconference update - fungi is your friend
• NAIS hurdles
• Liz Wagstrom looks at the NAIS swine program
• Scott Patton of Ipsos Reid talks with Bruce Cochrane about a recent Canadian consumer food safety and quality survey