April/May 2010 • Vol. 16, No. 2
Science-Based Solutions for Food Safety & Quality Professionals Worldwide
FEATURES
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Cover Story
Food Safety’s
New Regulatory Reality:
Are You Prepared?
Frank Oehl, Darin Floyd and Alan Fowler
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COLUMNS
Category Feature: Poultry
Control of Salmonella,
Campylobacter and Other
Bacteria in Raw Poultry
Scott Russell, Ph.D.
Focus on Innovation
Something Old, Something New:
Innovation within Existing Food Testing Technologies
A. Crispin Philpott
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Sanitarian’s File
Sampling, Part I: The Basics
Robert W. Powitz, Ph.D., MPH
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Testing
Shifting the Emphasis from Product Testing
to Process Testing
William H. Sperber, Ph.D.
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Process Control
Verification: Making Sure Your Food Safety
Management System Is Working
Richard F. Stier and John G. Surak
DEPARTMENTS
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FRoM tHe eDitoR
Ne WS BiteS
PeoPle & PlACeS
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PRoDuCt SHo WCASe
BiztRACkS
ClASSiFieDS &
ADveRtiSeRS iNDex
Editorial Advisory Board
DANIEL W. BENA
PepsiCo Beverages International
REGINALD W. BENNETT
CFSAN, U.S. FDA
ROBERT E. BRACKETT, PH.D.
Grocery Manufacturers Association
JOHN BUTTS, PH.D.
Land O’Frost
BRIAN CAMPBELL
Kroger Manufacturing
MARTIN B. COLE, PH.D.
National Center for
Food Safety and Technology
MICHAEL M. CRAMER
Windsor Foods
BETH ANN CROZIER-DODSON, PH.D.
Kansas State University
VIRGINIA DEIBEL, PH.D.
TRAC Microbiology
JONATHAN W. DEVRIES, PH.D.
General Mills/Medallion Labs
RUSSELL FLOWERS, PH.D.
Silliker, Inc.
VENY GAPUD
Food Safety Consultant
KATHY GOMBAS
CFSAN, U.S. FDA
JIM GORNY, PH.D.
CFSAN, U.S. FDA
DONALD J. GRAHAM
Graham Sanitary Design Consulting
PAUL A. HALL, PH.D.
AIV Microbiology and Food Safety
Consultants, LLC
MARGARET HARDIN, PH.D.
Texas A&M University
LARRY KEENER
International Product Safety Consultants
HUUB L.M. LELIEVELD
Global Harmonization Initiative
ANN MARIE MCNAMARA, PH.D.
Jack in the Box, Inc.
MARTIN MITCHELL
Certified Laboratories/
Refrigerated Foods Association
DOUG PEARISO
Contemporary Process Solutions LLC
ROBERT POWITZ, PH.D., MPH, RS
R. W. Powitz & Associates
SCOTT M. RUSSELL, PH.D.
University of Georgia
THOMAS M. SAUER
Well’s Dairy
RICHARD F. STIER
Consulting Food Scientist
JOHN G. SURAK, PH.D.
Surak and Associates
DON L. ZINK, PH.D.
CFSAN, U.S. FDA
