June/July 2010 • Vol. 16, No. 3
Science-Based Solutions for Food Safety & Quality Professionals Worldwide
FEATURES
30
Cover Story:
Getting In Tune with
Global Food Safety
Beth-Ann Crozier-Dodson, Ph.D.
24
Feature:
Food Safety through a Global Lens
Catherine François
Category: Prepared Foods Fast & Easy for the Consumer, but Prepared Safely? Barry Parsons
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42
Case Study:
A Look at the Food Safety
Program at Butterball, LLC
Alice Johnson, DVM
COLUMNS
12
Sanitarian’s File
Sampling, Part 2: Sampling Strategies
Bob Powitz, Ph.D., MPH
16
Process Control
Cook-chill Reduced-oxygen Packaging in Retail
and Foodservice Operations
Brian A. Nummer, Ph.D.
20
Sanitation
Workings of the European Hygienic Engineering
& Design Group
Hiroyuki Ohmura and Gerhard Hauser, Ph.D.
DEPARTMENTS
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8
10
From the editor
NewS BiteS
PeoPle & PlaceS
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54
Product ShowcaSe
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
LARRY COHEN
Kraft Foods
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
WILLIAM FISHER
Institute of Food Technologists
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
ALEXANDRA VEIGA, PH.D.
ITQB-UNL
DON L. ZINK, PH.D.
CFSAN, U.S. FDA