Food Industry News Roundup for Week of July 19

What happened at IAFP 2021, food safety culture is the focus of Peanut and Tree Nut Processors Association Technical Forum and more news from the week.

Editor's Choice
Editor's Choice

The nut industry's only food safety educational forum centered on cultivating a culture of food safety, the association said.

Applied Food Diagnostics Announces Reporter-Labeled Total QC Diagnostic Line for Food Pathogens
AFD’s Total QC-qPCR line of test kits simultaneously detects the target food pathogens along with the reporter-labeled quality control strain, tagged with green fluorescent protein, the company said.

Day 2 of IAFP 2021 Included a Regulatory Update and Symposium on Storytelling
The second day of the International Association for Food Protection's event featured sessions such as When Crime Threatens Food Safety and The Art of Scientific Storytelling.

Day 1 of IAFP 2021 Included Awards, an Opening Lecture and More
The first day of the International Association for Food Protection's event included a presentation by Cornell University's Robert Gravani.

The Impact of COVID-19 on Food-Shopping Behavior for Food-Insecure Populations
A recently published paper in Public Health evaluated how perceived risk aversion, resource scarcity and the consumers' food security status affected food procurement behaviors during the pandemic.