FDA Guidance for Industry: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergens View Resource FDA Food Allergens/Gluten-Free Guidance Documents & Regulatory Information View Resource

FDA Guidance for Industry and FDA: Advisory Levels for Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Finished Wheat Products for Human Consumption and Grains and Grain By-Products used for Animal Feed View Resource USDA Pesticides Residues Regulations View Resource FDA Chemical, Metals, Natural Toxins & Pesticides Guidance Documents & Regulations View Resource

International Journal of Food Microbiology: Berghofer, L.K., Hocking, A.D., Miskelly, D., and Jansson, E., 2003, Microbiology of wheat and flour milling in Australia. View Resource Journal of Food Protection: Eglezos, S., 2010, Microbiological Quality of Wheat Grain and Flour from Two Mills in Queensland, Australia View Resource Journal of Food Protection: Kindle, P., Nüesch-Inderbinen, M., Cernela, N., and Stephan, R., 2019, Detection, Isolation, and Characterization of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Flour View Resource Journal of Food Engineering: Laca A, Mousia Z, Díaz M, Webb C, Pandiella SS., 2006, Distribution of microbial contamination within cereal grains View Resource Journal of Consumer Protection and Safety: Made et al., 2017, Detection and isolation of Shiga-Toxin producing E. coli in flour in Germany between 2014 and 2017 View Resource Journal of Food Protection: Myoda, S., Gilbreth, S., Akins-Lewenthal, D., Davidson, S., Samadpour, M., 2019, Occurrence and levels of Salmonella, Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, and Listeria in Raw Wheat View Resource Cereal Foods World: Richter, K.S., E. Dorneanu, K.M. Eskridge, C. Rao, 1993, Microbiological Quality of Flours View Resource Journal of Food Protection: Sabillon, L., Stratton, J., Rose, D.J., Regassa, T.H., and Bianchini, A., 2016, Microbial Load of Hard Red Winter Wheat Produced at Three Growing Environments across Nebraska, USA View Resource Journal of Food Protection: Sperber, W.H. and North American Millers Association, 2007, Role of Microbiological Guidelines in the Production and Commercial Use of Milled Cereal Grains: A Practical Approach for the 21st Century View Resource

IAOM IPM Manual, 2016 View Resource

Free Technical Resources

Member & Associate Resources

Free Technical Resources

While there are many resources and documents available on the technical aspects of the grain and milling industries, the following are public technical resources of particular interest to the grain milling sector.

Allergens

FDA Guidance for Industry: Questions and Answers Regarding Food Allergens

FDA Food Allergens/Gluten-Free Guidance Documents & Regulatory Information

Chemicals

FDA Guidance for Industry and FDA: Advisory Levels for Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Finished Wheat Products for Human Consumption and Grains and Grain By-Products used for Animal Feed

USDA Pesticides Residues Regulations

FDA Chemical, Metals, Natural Toxins & Pesticides Guidance Documents & Regulations

Mycotoxins

Microbiology Insights Journal: Doolotkeldieva, T.D. 2010, Microbiological Control of Flour-Manufacture: Dissemination of Mycotoxins Producing Fungi in Cereal Products

Kansas State University: Tim Herrman and Dionisia Trigo-Stockli, 2002, Mycotoxins in Feed Grains and Ingredients

Journal for Food Protection: Manthey FA, Wolf-Hall CE, Yalla S, Vijayakumar C, Carlson D, 2004, Microbial loads, mycotoxins, and quality of durum wheat from the 2001 harvest of the northern plains region of the United States

USDA Mycotoxin Handbook

ILSI Practical Guidance to Mitigation of Mycotoxins During Food Processing

Outbreak Prevention

FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

FDA Draft Guidance for Industry: Hazard Analysis and Risk-Based Preventive Controls for Human Food

FDA Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook (Second Edition)

FDA Bulletin to the Food Service and Retail Food Store Industry Regarding Cake Batter Ice Cream and Similar Products, 2005

CDC Multistate Outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli Infections Linked to Flour, 2016

Food Microbiology: Gill, A., Carrillo, C., Hadley, M., Kenwell, R., and Chui L., 2019, Bacteriological analysis of wheat flour associated with an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O121.

Journal of Food Protection: Zhang, H., Yamamoto, E., Murphy, J., Carrillo, C., Hardie, K., and Locas, A., 2020, Microbiological Survey of Wheat flour Sold at Retail in Canada, 2018-2019

Pathogens

International Journal of Food Microbiology: Berghofer, L.K., Hocking, A.D., Miskelly, D., and Jansson, E., 2003, Microbiology of wheat and flour milling in Australia.

Journal of Food Protection: Eglezos, S., 2010, Microbiological Quality of Wheat Grain and Flour from Two Mills in Queensland, Australia

Journal of Food Protection: Kindle, P., Nüesch-Inderbinen, M., Cernela, N., and Stephan, R., 2019, Detection, Isolation, and Characterization of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli in Flour

Journal of Food Engineering: Laca A, Mousia Z, Díaz M, Webb C, Pandiella SS., 2006, Distribution of microbial contamination within cereal grains

Journal of Consumer Protection and Safety: Made et al., 2017, Detection and isolation of Shiga-Toxin producing E. coli in flour in Germany between 2014 and 2017

Journal of Food Protection: Myoda, S., Gilbreth, S., Akins-Lewenthal, D., Davidson, S., Samadpour, M., 2019, Occurrence and levels of Salmonella, Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli, and Listeria in Raw Wheat

Cereal Foods World: Richter, K.S., E. Dorneanu, K.M. Eskridge, C. Rao, 1993, Microbiological Quality of Flours

Journal of Food Protection: Sabillon, L., Stratton, J., Rose, D.J., Regassa, T.H., and Bianchini, A., 2016, Microbial Load of Hard Red Winter Wheat Produced at Three Growing Environments across Nebraska, USA

Journal of Food Protection: Sperber, W.H. and North American Millers Association, 2007, Role of Microbiological Guidelines in the Production and Commercial Use of Milled Cereal Grains: A Practical Approach for the 21st Century

Microbiological Research

Applied and Environmental Microbiology: Forghani F., den Bakker M., Futral AN, Diez-Gonzalez F., 2018, Long-term survival and thermal death kinetics of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli serogroups O26, O103, O111, and O157 in wheat flour

Frontiers in Microbiology: Forghani F, den Bakker M, Liao J-Y, Payton AS, Futral AN and Diez-Gonzalez F., 2019, Salmonella and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Serogroups O45, O121, O145 in Wheat Flour: Effects of Long-Term Storage and Thermal Treatment

Journal of Food Protection: Hildebrandt I, Marks BP, Ryser ET, Villa-Rojas R, Tang J, Garces-Vega FJ, Buchholz SE., 2016, Effects of inoculation procedures on variability and repeatability of thermal resistance of Salmonella in wheat flour

Cereal Chemistry: Magallanes Lopez, A.M., Simsek, S., 2020, Pathogens control on wheat and wheat flour: A review

Journal of Food Protection: Martinez, B., Stratton, J., Bianchini, A., Wegulo, S., and Weaver, G., 2015, Transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to Internal Tissues and Its Survival on Flowering Heads of Wheat

Clinical Infectious Diseases: Neil KP, Biggerstaff G, MacDonald JK, Trees E, Medus C, Musser KA, Stroika SG, Zink D, Sotir MJ., 2012, A novel vehicle for transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to humans: multistate outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections associated with consumption of ready-to-bake commercial prepackaged cookie dough-United States, 2009

Cereal Foods World: Rose DJ, Bianchini A, Martinez B, Flores RA., 2012, Methods for reducing microbial contamination of wheat flour and effects on functionality

University of Nebraska: Sabillon Galeas, L., 2014, Understanding the Factors Affecting Microbiological Quality of Wheat Milled Products: From Wheat Fields To Milling Operations

Cereal Chemistry: Sabillon, L., and Bianchini, A., 2016, From Field to Table: A Review on the Microbiological Quality and Safety of Wheat-Based Products

Cereal Chemistry: Sabillon, L., Stratton, J., Rose, D.J., Flores, R.A., and Bianchini, A., 2016, Reduction in Microbial Load of Wheat by Tempering with Organic Acid and Saline Solutions

Food Control: Taylor, M.H., Tsai, H-C., Rasco, B., Tang, J., Zhu, M.-J., 2018, Stability of Listeria monocytogenes in wheat flour during extended storage and isothermal treatment

Pest Management

IAOM IPM Manual, 2016

Physical Hazards

FDA CPG Sec. 555.425 Foods, Adulteration Involving hard or Sharp Foreign Objects

Sanitation

IAOM Bulk Trailer Sanitary Transport Best Practices Manual, 2019

FDA FSMA Final Rule on Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food

EPA Drinking Water Regulations