Food safety

Clean Label Salad Dressing Safety Standards

Clean Label Salad Dressing Safety Standards

Malcond Valladares, Ph.D., Food Scientist, The National Food Lab (NFL), systematically covered the process necessary to meet clean label salad dressing safety standards for one popular application at Global Food Forums’ 2022 Clean Label Conference. His presentation,...

Meeting Food Safety Standards in Clean Label Dressings [Presentation]

Meeting Food Safety Standards in Clean Label Dressings [Presentation]

Abstract: Clean label products are developed to address consumers’ demand for thoughtfully crafted products made with natural, easily recognizable ingredients. However, meeting this demand limits the use of many solutions used by product developers to address...

Multifactorial Food Preservation

Multifactorial Food Preservation

Multifactorial Food Preservation CONSUMERS WANT LESS SEVERELY (in other words, minimally) processed foods. They also desire their foods to be formulated with clean label ingredients when possible, and they prefer packaging that is recyclable and sustainable. Jairus...

Antimicrobials in Food 4th Edition [Book]

Antimicrobials in Food 4th Edition [Book]

As written in the Preface of the 4th edition of Antimicrobials in Food, “It has been nearly 15 years since the publication of the 3rd edition of Antimicrobials in Food, an excellent reference for the food microbiologist, food safety specialist, industrial researcher,...

Customized Chemical Risk Assessment

Customized Chemical Risk Assessment

Customized Chemical Risk Assessment A CORE PRINCIPLE of the clean label movements is that consumers expect transparency in the foods they eat. This translates to expectations that the food will be safe in all aspects. While food safety plans have always focused on...

2020 Clean Label Conference

2020 Clean Label Conference

The in-person 2020 Clean Label Conference was cancelled due to Covid-19. However, Global Food Forums provided registered attendees access to video recordings of speaker presentations. Most PowerPoint presentations as well as the 2020 Sweetener Systems Post-Conference...

2020 Clean Label Post Conference Magazine

2020 Clean Label Post Conference Magazine

The 2020 Clean Label Post Conference Magazine is a summary of key points from speakers who made recorded presentations that had been scheduled for the 2020 in-person event. It also publishes information on the ingredients selected by the Technology Snapshot Advisory...

Label-Friendly Surfactants and Emulsifiers

Label-Friendly Surfactants and Emulsifiers

Surfactants and emulsifiers constitute probably the most technically complicated category of food ingredients, declared Peter Wilde, Ph.D., Research Leader, Quadram Institute of Bioscience, University of East Anglia (UK), in his presentation “Challenges &...

Certification of Ingredient Supply Chains

Certification of Ingredient Supply Chains

Mincing no words in his presentation covering the certification of ingredient supply chains, Steve Taormina, Business Manager, NSF International, warned of major battles brewing in the food certification arena in his presentation “Behind the Label: Clean Label ‘Musts’...

Food Safety of Clean-Labeled Foods

Food Safety of Clean-Labeled Foods

As an expert on food safety and food perservation, Kathleen Glass, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Food Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is concerned about food safety of clean-labeled foods. She is, afterall, a self-professed “preservative...