Remco is proud to have participated and exhibited in the 2019 Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo. Over 400 food safety professionals and about 50 exhibitors attended this leading educational and networking event, and some of the key sessions covered were on:
- Salmonella detection and control;
- FSSC 22000 v.5;
- Data-driven, smart food safety management systems;
- Role of water activity in FSMA regulations;
- Aggressive approach to sanitation: planning for a decontamination event;
- Sanitary design as the generation next of food safety;
- Innovative food safety technologies;
- Monitoring and controlling environmental pathogens; and,
- Creating effective training programs for food manufacturers.
The keynote speaker at this leading conference was Frank Yiannas, FDA’s deputy commissioner for food policy and response, who provided a vital overview on the ‘New Era of Smarter Food Safety.’ Frank shared the FDA’s 21st century vision of promoting better, interconnected food safety systems that are FSMA-based, technology-enabled, digital, collaborative, people-led, consumer-focused, and with the enhanced traceability features. He also talked about the recent inclusion of FSMA Performance Measures within FDA-TRACK*, which is the agency’s performance management program that monitors, analyzes and reports results (on a quarterly basis) from key FDA performance data, projects and initiatives.
Remco also virtually participated in the Food Safety Public Meeting on the FDA’s blueprint for a “New Era of Smarter Food Safety” that took place in Washington DC on October 21, which was well attended by regulators, industry stakeholders, academia, consumer advocacy groups, and the media. The FDA have requested formal comments from the stakeholders, and the details are available at: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/09/18/2019-20229/a-new-era-of-smarter-food-safety-public-meeting-request-for-comments.
Remco shares the vision of promoting smarter food safety by providing the end-users with high quality color-coded material handling tools like scoops, tubs, scrapers, mixing paddles, and much more. As a Vikan company, we also distribute innovative, hygienically designed cleaning tools and solutions (e.g. brushes, brooms, squeegees etc.) to food producers and manufacturers based in North America. For further information, kindly visit us at: https://remcoproducts.com/.
Note:
Food Safety Consortium Conference & Expo is one of the food safety industry’s premier event organized by Innovative Publishing Co. LLC, a publishing house for Med-Tech-Intelligence, Food-Safety- Tech, and Cannabis-Industry-Journal. More information is available at: https://foodsafetyconsortium.org/.
The New Era of Smarter Food Safety Initiative is the FDA’s strategic blueprint on how the agency plans to leverage technology and other tools in order to create a digital, traceable and safer food safety system. More information is available at: https://www.fda.gov/food/food-industry/new-era-smarter-food-safety.
* About FDA-TRACK: https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-track-agency-wide-program-performance/about-fda-track
