April/May 2011 • Vol. 17, No. 2
Science-Based Solutions for Food Safety & Quality Professionals Worldwide
FEATURES
Cover Story 34 Training in an Integrated Food
Safety System: Focus on Food Protection
Officials
By J. Joseph Corby, Gerald Wojtala and Craig Kaml, Ed.D.
Category: Low-moisture Foods 44 Customer-supplier Relationships:
Microbiological Specifications for Raw Materials
By Jean-Louis Cordier, Ph.D.
Feature 52 Food Safety Modernization Act: What’s Next?
Spotlight on Meat and Poultry: 58 Latest Trends in Meat Safety:
How Will We Validate Meat Plant
HACCP Systems?
By Keith E. Belk, Ph.D.
COLUMNS
Focus: Certification 12 Results of a New National Survey
By Christopher Peterson, Ph.D.
Sanitation 16 Inadequate Sanitation Results in Biofilm Formation
By Gloryann Mejias-Sarceno
Regulatory Report 20 The Value of Economics in Regulation: Examples from The Egg Rule
By Brad Brown, Ph.D.
Sanitation 26 Biofilms and Microorganisms on Surfaces After
Cleaning and Disinfection
By Brigitte Carpentier, Ph.D.
Process Control 30 How Should Packaging Be Addressed in Your Food Safety Program?
By Richard F. Stier
DEPARTMENTS
6 From the editor
8 NewSBiteS
10 PeoPle& PlaceS
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Editorial Advisory Board
DANIEL W. BENA
PepsiCo Beverages International
REGINALD W. BENNETT
CFSAN, U.S. FDA
ROBERT E. BRACKETT, PH.D.
National Center for
Food Safety and Technology
JOHN N. BUTTS, PH.D.
Land O’Frost
BRIAN CAMPBELL
Kroger Manufacturing
LARRY COHEN
Kraft Foods
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
Fieldale Farms
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.
IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group
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 and EFFoST
DON L. ZINK, PH.D.
CFSAN, U.S. FDA
