A friend of mine is a backyard, urban chicken farmer. She uses a traditional egg incubator to nurture, protect and grown her precious eggs into newborn chicks. Whenever she has tried to leave the eggs to fend for themselves, disaster has struck. Therefore, the preferred way to ensure a flourishing chicken population for my friend’s backyard coop is the use of an incubator. Food incubators offer similar features to emerging food industry companies.

According to a fall 2017 MIT study, 85 percent of executives believe artificial intelligence will transform their companies, but only one in five have done anything to begin incorporating it into their operations.

This week, Robert Garfield, senior vice president, and LeAnn Chuboff, vice president of technical affairs, of the Safe Quality Food Institute presented at Specialty Food Association’s Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, California.

With the FSMA Produce Safety Rule compliance date later this month, the FDA continues to educate and clarify how they expect the industry to comply with FSMA regulations. On January 4, 2018, the FDA announced their intention to exert discretionary enforcement for certain provisions in four rules of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). This announcement further delays several provisions within Compliance Date Extensions and Clarifications for FSMA Final Rules in order to make the rules practical for implementation and for industry stakeholders to focus on developing the risk-based solutions outlined in the previously published FSMA final rules.