Month: March 2014

Food Safety Modernization Act: What You Need To Know About FSMA from AIB

In the food industry, we have been hearing about FSMA for a couple of years now. The AIB has recently updated it’s guide to FSMA, and we think it’s a great resource! FSMA is an amendment to the FD&C Act, therefore it applies to food and manufacturing sites that fall under the FD&C Act and…
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Hot Topics and Cool Science: What’s the difference between a food and a nutritional supplement?

Did you attend the SCIFTS Food Industry Conference?  It was a fantastic line-up of high powdered industry experts including past IFT presidents, John Ruff and Roger Clemens.  My favorite was a presentation by Mr. Justin Prochnow an attorney for Greenberg Traurig, LLP in Denver, CO.  He is an expert in food labeling law. So —…
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RCA Annual Conference 2014

It was my first time attending the Research Chef’s conference!!  I was thrilled to be among the industry’s chefs, research chefs, students, Culinologists,  and product developers in Portland, OR. In the education sessions, I heard speakers talk about diverse topics such as “all about sauces,” “Antimicrobial natural products,” and “Clean Labeling”.  In another session I…
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