When you work in the rapid-turn world of food manufacturing and food safety testing, every step counts. Two food safety technical service specialists show us how simple and easy it is to use 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates. “Your media is ready to go when you are,” says Cari Lingle, a microbiologist in 3M’s Food Safety Department. … Continue reading “How rapid-method plating systems keeps food testing quick and easy”
Quality assurance is important in all industries, but when it comes to food safety it’s important on several levels. As Henry Ford famously said, “Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” We suspect he’d probably agree that doing it right is important when the whole world is looking, too. As food safety becomes … Continue reading “Quality assurance in food safety: meet the team”
Eating fads continue to come and go, and some of those trends bring new safety challenges for the food industry. Locally-sourced food – including gardens inside restaurants — raw smoothies, and peoples’ undying love of cookie dough have led to the consumption of unsafe food. Testing for indicator organisms and pathogens in an environmental monitoring … Continue reading “Testing for indicator organisms and pathogens”
As rules and regulations continue to be important in the dairy processing industry, it’s critical to have a trustworthy food safety testing solution. Impacts of spoilage, poor hygienic conditions, and pathogens in consumables continue to be important. With the rise of social media, any problem is more visible than ever. 3M Food Safety can help you … Continue reading “Dairy testing: what you need to know”
AOAC® INTERNATIONAL PTM vs. AOAC® INTERNATIONAL OMA Background information: What is the AOAC? Founded in 1884, AOAC® INTERNATIONAL is an independent, third-party international association comprised of government agencies, industry organizations, research institutions, and individual scientists. What they do: Deliver Official Methods of AnalysisSM (OMA), Provide Performance Tested MethodSM (PTM) certifications, Complete rigorous laboratory testing and … Continue reading “What you need to know about the AOAC®”
With an ever-increasing consumer interest in food safety and quality combined with the added visibility and global communication of food recalls, sanitation and quality issues, the importance of testing continues to grow. For every stage of food preparation and handling before it shows up at the grocery store, testing methods help to prevent food-borne illnesses … Continue reading “Methods of Indicator Testing”
This July, the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) hosted its Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. Over 3,600 “top industry, academic and governmental food safety professionals from six continents” attended the week-long event to discuss topics ranging from Food Hygiene to Vital and Parasitic Foodborne Diseases. Seminars: 3M Food Safety was proud to … Continue reading “IAFP 2018 Summary”
