In the light of the recent and unfortunate Listeria monocytogenes outbreaks among some well-known IQF processors from North America and Japan, food safety has gained an increasing attention among food processors around the world. Safety alerts have been raised and large amounts of IQF frozen vegetables have been recalled from the US, Canada and Japan’s market after discovering that dozens of IQF vegetables brands were contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) has recently published an article with strong emphasis on the importance of food safety and has called it their number one priority. The Institute is delivering numerous webinars in order to insure that its members are fully aware of the new actions to be undertaken by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration\u2019s (FDA) for preventing listeria and other foodborne illness outbreaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the light of the recent and unfortunate Listeria monocytogenes outbreaks among some well-known IQF processors from North America and Japan, food safety has gained an increasing attention among food processors around the world. Safety alerts have been raised and large amounts of IQF frozen vegetables have been recalled from the US, Canada and Japan’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-55"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n