SPECIALTY FOOD NEWS
Gourmet portions, cheese for everyone's needs.
NYC Tap Water For Sale A new Manhattan café, Molecule, sells New York City filtered tap water. The owners of the shop claim the water streams through a $25,000 filtering machine that uses ultravio- let rays, ozone treatments and reverse osmo- sis in a seven-stage processing treatment. For a few extra dollars, customers can add vitamins and herbal infusions.
LEGISLATIVE REGULATORY NEWS
FDA's Goals for Retailers…FDA's dep- uty commissioner for foods Michael R. Taylor has identified four goals for retail- ers: make the presence of certified food protection managers common practice; strengthen active managerial
& control
Cheesemaking has long been a tradition in Switzerland and cheese production is an integral part of Swiss culture. Mifroma USA imports only the finest cheeses from Switzerland. Aged in a rock cave, carved by nature over centuries in the village of Ursy at the foot of the Swiss Alps, Mifroma quality chees- es are appreciated across Switzerland, Europe and North America. Now Mifroma is introducing its range of
random- and fixed-weight cheeses so you can cater to different customer needs. From the gourmet-style variable weight cheeses to the "unwrap and go" exact weight, both come in authentic wedge or stick formats. Customers will love the distinctive, milky-film parchment wrap- ping; you'll know that this is a hallmark of quality. Discover our complete range of authentic cheeses from Switzerland at mifroma.com
at the retail level and ensure better compliance with food safety standards; encourage widespread, uniform and complete adoption of the FDA Food Code; and create an enhanced local regulatory environment for retail food operations. The second goal is in keep- ing with the focus on preventive controls in the Food Safety Modernization Act. Taylor wrote on the FDA website in April: "Data from FDA's Retail Risk Factor Study point to a correlation between the presence of a certified food protection manager and better food safety prac- tices and behaviors. … [W]e know that food safety is enhanced when manag- ers assess their food safety systems, implement appropriate procedures and training, and actively monitor compli- ance with those systems to reduce risk in retail operations."
National Map of Food Hubs and Markets…The USDA published a new "compass map"
showing wholesale,
farmers and other markets, food hubs and meat
facilities at kyfcompassmap.htm.
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the United States, among other infor- mation,