Food Safety

We welcome the news that the US Food and Drug Administration has finalized the first two of seven rules in the Food Safety Modernization Act.

There is nothing more important in food and beverage manufacturing than food safety. At Penta 5 USA cleaning, sanitizing, checking are a major priority in the process.

Last year the government reported 1 in 6 people in the U.S. became ill from food-borne illness or disease. This is a horrific statistic.

Product recalls are now weekly - covering salmonella, listeria, allergens and foreign matter contamination.

The new rules are aimed at prevention to stop problems at the start of processing rather than waiting until an outbreak has occurred.

We applaud the FDA commissioner on this implementation and the opportunity to improve food safety.