Food Sensitivity – IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group – The Institute for Environmental Health https://www.iehinc.com Food Safety Laboratories Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:31:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.iehinc.com/storage/2021/12/Asset-5-1-150x150.png Food Sensitivity – IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group – The Institute for Environmental Health https://www.iehinc.com 32 32 Will Daniels: Humanizing Food Safety – Food Safety Matters https://www.iehinc.com/will-daniels-humanizing-food-safety/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 05:27:54 +0000 https://www.iehinc.com/?p=8933

In this episode of Food Safety Matters Will Daniels, president of the produce division at IEH, discusses “the human side of food safety as part of public health, reestablishing a relationship with the consumer, reliving the 2006 spinach outbreak, educating and engaging your workforce, engaging senior management in food safety, how to counter complacency in your food safety plan, the ongoing saga of romaine lettuce outbreaks, the role of whole-genome sequencing in outbreak surveillance, why romaine is such a challenging commodity to keep safe, irrigation water standards, moving beyond the regulations to improve food safety even more, what drives food safety programs, keeping food workers safe during the pandemic, and where we go from here”

]]> Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 contamination on food plant surfaces as determined by environmental monitoring https://www.iehinc.com/environmental-monitoring-covid-contamination-on-food-plant-surfaces/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:14:15 +0000 https://www.iehinc.com/?p=8711

Covid-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2 corona virus, has disrupted life on earth, causing a pandemic that has resulted in millions of infections and deaths. During the early phase of the pandemic there were large scale outbreaks in food production plants. In March of 2020 we helped to implement infection control strategies in 116 food production plants that included environmental surface monitoring for SARS-CoV-2 contamination. Even though individuals who were symptomatic for Covid-19 were not allowed to work, we found that 1.23% of surface samples showed SARS-CoV-2 contamination.

Additionally, we found correlation between positive test results of environmental surfaces and plant personnel. Our findings indicate that environmental monitoring of high touch surfaces can help to identify the presence of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic personnel in workplaces and may aid in controlling infection spread. Please view our publication in Journal of Food Protection.

]]> Make Food Safety Consumer-Focused https://www.iehinc.com/make-food-safety-consumer-focused/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 20:12:32 +0000 https://www.iehinc.com/?p=8708

Food Safety Summit 2020 featured Will Daniels with a keynote presentation titled “Back to Basics: Consumer-Focused Food Safety.”

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