October/November 2011 • Vol. 17, No. 5
Science-Based Solutions for Food Safety & Quality Professionals Worldwide
FEATURES
Cover Story 42 Evolution of a State Food Safety Program
By Oscar Garrison
48
Category: Beverages
Japanese Tea: Plan B
By Dan Bolton
52
Spotlight on Meat and Poultry:
N60—What It Is and What It Is Not
By Dean Danilson, Ph.D.
54
Employee Training:
Developing and Assessing GAPs
Programs in Preparation for the Food
Safety Modernization Act
By Karen Killinger, Ph.D.
COLUMNS
Focus: Chemical Contamination 12 Chemical Contaminants:
Preparing for the Unexpected
By Rebeca Lopez-Garcia, Ph.D.
Process Control 16 Food Safety and Risk Assessment
By John G. Surak, Ph.D.
and Gustavo Gonzalez, Ph.D.
Sanitation 22 Food Plant GMPs: How Can Foreign
Food Manufacturers Comply
with U.S. Regulations?
By Herbert Weinstein, Ph.D.
Testing 28 Waiter! There’s a Fly in My Soup!”...and So Much More!
By Richard Haynos
DEPARTMENTS
6 From the editor
8 news Bites
62 ProduCt showCase
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67
Calendar
advertisers index
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.
Crozier-Dodson Food Safety Consulting, LLC
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
DARRYL SULLIVAN
Covance Laboratories
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
