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Dairy's Focus on Food Safety

The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy® provides a forum for the dairy industry to work together pre-competitively. Collectively, the IC represents over 500 dairy manufacturers and over 80 percent of the U.S. milk supply. One important IC initiative is the Food Safety team, which helps assure dairy products are safe by providing resources and training in all facets of dairy manufacturing. This website provides tools, guides, and resources for your Food Safety programs. For a printable brochure of resources click here.

Food Safety and Traceability Guidance Documents

Best practice documents written with the input of top U.S. experts from processors and academia.
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Artisan and Farmstead Dairy

Small dairy processors, including dairy farmstead operations, face unique food safety challenges.  The IC has worked with many experts to provide a variety of resources to help you grow your business safely.
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Food Safety Culture

Having a strong food safety culture is an important aspect in ensuring that the food a company produces is of the highest quality and safe for consumers to eat. Creating a food safety culture across your company can be an intimidating task, but the resources provided below should help get you started.
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Dairy Plant Food Safety Controls

Focused on pathogen-control guidelines and principles, the goal of the Innovation Center’s Food Safety Committee is to develop and encourage industry adoption of in-plant pathogen control programs.
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Supply Chain Controls

The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy Food Safety Team has developed science-based tools to assess your supplies and suppliers in support of FSMA Hazard Analysis, Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food and Foreign Supplier Verification Program Regulations.
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Webinars

View past IC Food Safety Webinars and learn about upcoming talks.
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Spanish-Language Tools

The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy food safety team provides tools and guidance for the dairy industry. Some of these key tools are now available in Spanish.
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Meet the Food Safety Committee

Learn more about the IC Food Safety Team, our dairy industry volunteers, and programs.
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