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  • Cheers to Craft Beer: A Tradition of Quality, Innovation and Community

    19 March, 2019 by Beth Pedersen, Staff Writer, MasterControl

    Beer has long been a staple beverage in human society. Beyond its taste and nutritional characteristics, beer’s greatest virtue is its ability to create shared social experiences for people the world over. To quench their thirst for innovative flavors, local goods and the highest possible quality, today’s beer drinkers are turning to craft beer in droves.

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  • Supplier Approval Challenges Under FSMA

    1 March, 2017 Erika Miller, Food Safety Specialist, D.L. Newslow & Associates, Inc.

    As a food safety and regulatory consultant, I work with diverse clients who face many different challenges with Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) implementation. The ones that are the hardest to address fall into the intersection between company policy and regulatory requirements. Supply-chain approval is a major challenge for many larger corporate clients, as well as smaller clients who must remain flexible to maintain profitability. The requirements of the Foreign Supplier Verification Prog

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  • The “New Normal” for FDA Enforcement of the Food Industry: What You Need to Know and How to Prepare

    16 May, 2017 by Maile Gradison Hermida and Brian D. Eyink, Hogan Lovells US LLP

    With the parade of headlines announcing a new food-borne illness investigation, recall, or Food and Drug Administration (FDA) enforcement action continuing unabated, food company executives, quality assurance officers, and legal counsel are struggling to understand the new food enforcement paradigm.  Although every situation and company is different, in this article we identify four key developments that all food companies need to be aware of, as well as key steps that will help to prepare

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  • Required Records of Selected Regulations Under the Food Safety Modernization Act

    20 June, 2017 by Erika Miller, Food Safety Specialist, D.L. Newslow and Associates

    The Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA (2011), has dominated the conversation in food safety circles for quite some time now. Compliance dates are arriving, and companies are realizing there is a lot to be done to become compliant. Companies that traditionally had little to no contact with the FDA (if everything was going right) are now seeing activity, whether anticipated or not.

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