FEATURES
30 COVER STORY
Understand STEC:
A Growing Concern
By Jim Byron
38 BACTERIA
Enterococcus faecium
NRRL B2354:
Tempest in a Teapot or
Serious Foodborne Pathogen?
By Jeffrey L. Kornacki, Ph.D.
46 CATEGORY: FROZEN FOODS An Integrated Approach to Food Quality and Safety: A Case Study in the Cookie Industry By Steven Atkins, M.B.A., and Marcia Hagen, Ph.D.
COLUMNS
12 Sanitation
Preventive Maintenance: An Essential
Prerequisite for Food Safety
By Richard F. Stier
16 International Food Safety
Safe Food in a Changing World
By Alexandra Veiga, Ph.D.
18 Process Control
GMPs in the Snack Food Industry
in Latin America
By Adriana Quintanar, Ph.D.
24 Packaging
Food Packaging: Supplying Safety
By Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute
26 Testing
Environmental Monitoring for Listeria:
Getting Started
By David E. Gombas, Ph.D.
28 Focus: Pesticides
Carbendazim Residues in Orange Juice
By Barbara VanRenterghem, Ph.D.
56
SPOTLIGHT: MEAT AND POULTRY
“Tradition, Quality and
European Taste”
Campaign on European
Meat Safety
By Union of Producers and
Employers of the Meat Industry
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
Saputo Cheese U.S.A.
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
DEPARTMENTS
6 Editor’s Letter
8 News Bites
10 People & Places
60 Product Showcase
72 Calendar
74 Advertisers Index
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.
I TQB-UNL and EFFoST
Don L. Zink, Ph.D.
