Dream team ready to help South African listeriosis victims – Food Safety News
Dr. Mansour Samadpour, the CEO of IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group will serve as a technical expert in this court case.
Food Safety Matters Podcast Interviews Fresh Produce Expert Will Daniels – Food Safety Magazine
Will Daniels, president of the produce division at IEH, was interviewed about “how Earthbound Farm responded to a deadly E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to fresh spinach, the complexities and challenges of the supply chain, balancing food safety needs with marketing objectives, the importance of education along every point of the supply chain, low product pricing and its effect […]
IEH acquires all assets related to the Sample6 Pathogen DETECT platform
WOBURN, MA and SEATTLE, WA, November 14, 2017 – Sample6 and IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group (IEH) jointly announced today that IEH is acquiring all assets related to the Sample6 DETECT platform. This divestment allows Sample6 to focus exclusively on its groundbreaking and highly-regarded CONTROL food safety software. Sample6 aims to continue to develop the […]
Roka Bioscience, Inc. Agrees to Sell its Assets to Subsidiary of Institute for Environmental Health, Inc
Roka Bioscience, Inc. Agrees to Sell its Assets to Subsidiary of Institute for Environmental Health, Inc. Warren, NJ – August 17, 2017 – Roka Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKA), a molecular diagnostics company focused on providing advanced testing solutions for the detection of foodborne pathogens, today announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement […]
Retrofitting a Food Plant to Maximize Sanitation – Food Safety Magazine
Dr. Margaret Hardin, vice president of technical services at IEH, wrote an article discussing the important roles sanitation and the layout of food plants have on food safety.
We Have Terrible News For Anyone Who Eats Chicken – Mother Jones
“One of the US Department of Agriculture’s main tasks is to ensure that the nation’s meat supply is safe. But according to a new peer-reviewed study from the department’s own researchers, the USDA’s process for monitoring salmonella contamination on chicken—by far the most-consumed US meat—may be flawed.” “The solution is pretty clear, Samadpour told me. […]
Some Pre-Grated Parmesan Contains Additive Derived From Wood Pulp, Investigation Finds – Inside Edition
“Inside Edition bought 34 samples of Parmesan cheese from major supermarkets, as well as from major restaurant chains like Pizza Hut and Domino’s, and sent it to IEH Labs in Seattle, Washington where it was tested for cellulose. Mansour Samadpour, the president of IEH labs said, “I was very surprised, I did not expect the numbers […]
9 People Who Are Changing The Future Of Food – Fast Company Profile on Mansour Samadpour
“It’s better to set up systems properly in the beginning, rather than have to deal with an outbreak. Food safety is a moral obligation.” – Fast Company Profile on Mansour Samadpour
IPPE Report: NAMI presents industry achievement awards – Meat + Poultry
“The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) Foundation Scientific Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Mohammed Koohmaraie, CEO, Meat Division at IEH Laboratories, honoring his longstanding contributions assisting the industry to produce safe and wholesome meat, and his efforts to improve meat and poultry technologies.”
One person dying of food borne illness is ‘one too many’ – Mansour Samadpour interview on CNN Money
“People need to understand what they are eating, where it was grown. You buy a bag of lettuce, where was it grown? Is the product from California? Arizona? Came from south of the border somewhere? The country of origin of the food we buy is extremely important. Let’s say you’re looking to travel to a country, […]
7 things to know about our food system – CNN Money
“Mansour Samadpour runs IEH Laboratories, one of the largest private food testing facilities in the nation. Companies hire him to test their food and make sure it’s safe for the consumer. He believes much of the current testing is too infrequent and small in scale. “We call that faith-based food safety,” he says. Why do companies resist […]
Chipotle Installing New Food Safety Protocols From the Ground Up – Food Safety News
“IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group is in. Led by Seattle’s Dr. Mansour Samadpour, IEH brings its own significant credibility to Chipotle’s table. Known to many within the food safety community simply as “Mansour,” the microbiologist says he’s going to deliver “a more robust food safety program to ensure the highest level of safety and the […]
Letter From the Editor: Mansour to the Rescue – Food Safety News
“Mansour said Chipotle adopted his food safety plan for the 1,900-plus restaurants of the Mexican fast-casual food chain “without any modification.” He promised to eliminate or mitigate “risk to a level of near zero and will establish Chipotle as the industry leader in this area.” Whether naming a food safety czar marks the beginning of a […]
Putting Salad Bar Safety to the Test – Food Safety News
“Besides [E. coli, Listeria or Salmonella], the station reported that the lab tested for the number of microbes in one gram of food, and those results weren’t negative. In fact, the leafy green samples all had more than 1 million colony-forming units per gram (CFU/g) of microbes. Dr. Mansour Samadpour, the CEO of IEH Laboratories, noted […]
Chipotle Hires Safety Consultants to Cope With Health Scare – Bloomberg
“After shutting restaurants in Seattle and Portland, Oregon, Chipotle is doing a deep cleaning of the locations, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Twelve people in the Portland area and 25 in Washington state became ill after eating at Chipotle restaurants, according to health officials in the two states. The company is working with […]
Lesson from Blue Bell recall: producers should ‘assume food is not safe’ – The Guardian
“Outbreaks that last this long are more common than one might think, said Samadpour. They occur whenever the investigators cannot connect the dots and are not able to find the source of the outbreak, which means that the contaminated product continues to be sold. “By the time people are sick, it’s too late,” he said. […]
Meet the Man Who Fights Rampant Food Fraud – Eater
“Samadpour’s company — which has over 1,500 employees across 116 labs — tests everything from whether or not a box of raspberries are actually organic or if a piece of “wild-caught” fish is actually wild, or the species listed on the label. He notes that fish are often mislabeled because once they have been filleted, […]
Private Eyes in the Grocery Aisles – The New York Times
“Business is booming — partly because IEH clients consider testing to be a gatekeeper defense in a multitiered food economy without borders. “We’re a lot more concerned about imports,” Mr. Samadpour says, because of “lack of accountability, lack of infrastructure, lack of a culture of food safety.” He says episodes like the 2008 discovery of […]
IEH welcomes Dr. Donald Zink – IEH Press Release
“IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group is pleased to announce its recent hire of Dr. Donald Zink, who has joined IEH as the President of the Division of Foods and Regulatory Compliance. In his new position with IEH, Dr. Zink will provide consulting services and support clients of IEH to promote product safety and use his […]
The Sample Has Been Taken, the Results Are In: Now What? – Food Safety Magazine
Dr. Margaret Hardin, vice president of technical services at IEH, wrote an article discussing how to analyze, trend, and monitor test results generated in the food industry and how this data can be used to implement corrective actions that reduce risks associated with food products.
