In August, FDA issued the 2022 edition of the Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards. What exactly are these standards and what do they mean for retail and foodservice establishments? In this edition of TAG Talks, Host Lisa Lupo speaks with TAG’s Senior Food Safety Manager Lily Yang and Food Safety Manager Karla Acosta about the standards, and retail food safety in general.

Animal welfare can be a contentious issue, particularly as it relates to food animals where regulation, and popular opinion aren’t always in agreement. In this episode of TAG Talks, Host Lisa Lupo speaks with TAG Food Safety Director Sam Davidson about the current state of animal welfare.

In the last two decades, U.S. consumption of imported foods has grown by 80% -- and the nation’s imported foods requirements have grown and changed along with that. With TAG now having expanded into India, we take a look at what this growth – in U.S. consumption and regulations – means to India food exporters. In this session of TAG Talks, TAG Director of Communications Lisa Lupo speaks with Food Safety Director Ranjeet Klair about U.S. food imports from India.

In January 2021, FDA published the proposed Traceability Rule required by FSMA. On or before November 7, 2022, that rule is (finally!) required to become final. What does this mean to food businesses? Lisa Lupo, TAG's Director of Communications, talks with Ben Miller about the finalization of the FDA's traceability rule and how it could affect your business.

Supply chain risk management is a challenge for every part of the food chain, particularly in today’s environment. Lisa Lupo, TAG's Director of Communications, talks with TAG’s Executive Senior Director of Food Safety & Supply Chain Risk Management, Liliana Casal-Wardle about food chain challenges faced by CPG and the food service industry.

PFAS has become a very hot topic for the food industry and consumer advocacy groups, but just what are these substances? What are they used for? Why are they so controversial? The Acheson Group's Director of Food Safety, Brent Kobielush, and Lisa Lupo, TAG's Director of Communications, discuss why the food safety space has become interested in PFAS and why exactly it is such a hot topic.

The Incident Command System (ICS) is a standard for emergency management in the U.S. which has been espoused by FDA for a response to food safety or public health adverse events. TAG's Vice President of Public Health and Regulatory Affairs, Ben Miller, discusses ICS and its application to public health and food safety events with Lisa Lupo, TAG's Director of Communications.

Following its issuance of a Seafood House of Guidance in December, the US FDA issued the latest edition of the Fish and Fishery Products Hazards and Controls in June 2022. The Acheson Group's Director of Communications, Lisa Lupo, and Director of Food Safety, Ranjeet Klair, discuss the guidance and resources for seafood processor compliance.

Lisa Lupo and Eric Edmunds discuss why so many food facilities are being cited for FSVP violations.

Lisa Lupo and Lacey Keesee discuss HACCP and food safety plans. These two plans are similar in some ways, including some of the same information. Information from HACCP can be utilized in forming food safety plans.