Barry Callebaut halted all chocolate production at its factory in Wieze, Belgium on June 29.

After reaching out to all customers supplied with impacted chocolate products, Barry Callebaut can confirm, based on its internal investigation, that no affected chocolate products by the Salmonella-positive production lot in Wieze, Belgium, entered the retail food chain.

The FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Senftenberg infections linked to certain Jif peanut butter products produced at the J.M. Smucker Company facility in Lexington, Kentucky.

AIB International’s catalog of Baking Process Kill Step Calculators now includes a profile for fruit-filled pastries.

Mondelēz, Flowers Foods, and Pepperidge Farm all announced recalls of certain products today due to possible Salmonella in the whey powder ingredient used in the products.

The newest addition to the product profiles for AIB International’s catalog of baking process kill step calculators now includes nut muffins.

In September, FDA issued the final rule for preventive controls for human food as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). As expected, validation that the baking process provides a kill step for pathogens was part of the rule.

Federal prosecutors see the Peanut Corp. of America convictions in the food poisoning trial as a victory for consumers. They say they represent a stern warning to others who may be tempted to place profits over food safety.