We R Food Safety

10/05/2026

🎉 WE’RE CELEBRATING 14 YEARS! 🎉
On October 1, 2012, We R Food Safety was founded with a simple goal: to help food processors produce safe, high-quality products while making food safety and regulatory compliance easier to manage.

Fourteen years later, we’re most proud of are the relationships we’ve built with our customers. From family-owned processors to growing multi-location operations, we’ve had the privilege of helping businesses solve problems, improve their operations, and protect the products and brands they’ve worked so hard to build.

To all of our customers, employees, partners, and friends who have been part of our journey since 2012 — THANK YOU!

Here’s to 14 years of food safety — and many more to come! 🎂
We R Food Safety
Your Trusted Food Safety Partner

10/01/2026

🎉 14 years ago today, on October 1, 2012, We R Food Safety was born at the Carriage House; Iroh was there to keep the work going! Some days it feels like a lifetime ago, and some days it feels like last week.

To our team: thank you for the long drives, the late nights and the care you put into every client's program.

To our clients: thank you for trusting us with your businesses and your products. Many of you have been with us for years, and you're the reason we do this work.

Without all of you, none of it would have been worth it. Here's to the next 14!

Drew Lorenz
Founder & CEO, We R Food Safety

09/28/2026

Need help with your cooking process, monitoring system, or an FSIS enforcement issue? Contact me at 715-575-8571 to learn more about how We R Food Safety can help.

Continuous Cooking Monitoring: More Than Just Temperature
Cooking recordkeeping has been an area of increased FSIS inspection and enforcement attention over the past year. When questions arise regarding a cooking process, having complete and accurate data can make a significant difference.

At We R Food Safety, we help processors address inspection and enforcement issues involving cooking records, continuous probe monitoring, process deviations, and deviation analysis.

Practical advantages of continuous monitoring systems include:
1. Stronger HACCP documentation
2. Better ability to demonstrate lethality
3. Earlier detection of process problems
4. Better investigation and analysis of deviations
5. Less operator intervention
6. More consistent records and fewer transcription errors
7. Better overall process analysis
8. Stronger validation and ongoing verification evidence
9. Oven/smokehouse mapping to identify potential hot and cold spots

Continuous monitoring provides more than an endpoint temperature. It can provide a complete picture of what occurred throughout the cooking cycle, giving both plant management and food safety personnel better information when evaluating process performance or responding to regulatory concerns.

09/11/2026

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09/11/2026

We will never forget! 🇺🇸✝️

08/26/2026

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/FSIS-Form/5200-16.pdf

📢 Attention Small and Very Small USDA-Inspected Meat, Poultry, and Egg Processors!

If you haven't already, make sure you've filed FSIS Form 5200-16 (Overtime/Holiday Rate Reduction Form). Depending on your plant size, you are eligible for a partial refund of overtime and holiday fees RETROACTIVELY back to October 5, 2025, while funds are available. 🎉
✅ 30% reduction for eligible small establishments
✅ 75% reduction for eligible very small establishments

Yes, it's free money! 💰But to receive the fee reduction, businesses must complete and submit FSIS Form 5200-16 (Overtime/Holiday Rate Reduction Form). Click on Link above

Who is eligible?✔ USDA-inspected establishments that slaughter livestock or poultry or process meat, poultry, or egg products requiring federal inspection.

Who is not eligible?✖ Facilities receiving only voluntary inspection services

08/17/2026

🎤 We’re proud to announce that Dan Robert and Artemese Dolliole of We R Food Safety will be Featured Speakers at the 2026 Louisiana Meat Processors Association Fall Meeting!

Join Dan, Artemese, and an outstanding lineup of industry and government leaders August 21–22 at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans, Louisiana.

We’re looking forward to connecting with meat processors from across Louisiana, sharing our food safety and regulatory experience, and being part of a great industry event.

📅 August 21–22, 2026
📍 Hotel Monteleone | New Orleans, LA

Come join us in New Orleans! ⚜️

08/10/2026

Check out our How To video series!

08/06/2026

It is profound sadness that we share that Rosemay Mucklow has passed.

She truly believed in the meat and poultry industry. She fought so many battles, in states and in Washington DC, that her legacy is untouched by anyone, all to keep the industry she loved compliant and focused not just on humane handling, but on food safety, and productivity.

She pushed back on rules that didn't offer any benefit to the consumer or the processor. Andy she usually won.

She was a strong woman in a male dominated space, no one dominated her, period!

We are saddened greatly and she will be missed.

Rosemary rest is peace! You are already missed!

Drew and the We R Food Safety team!

More information can be found at meatingplace.com: https://meatingplace.com/rosemary-mucklow-longtime-meat-industry-association-leader-dies-at-94/

Rosemary Mucklow, a longtime meat industry association executive whose career spanned more than five decades and helped shape U.S. meat processing policy and trade, died July 21. She was 94. Mucklow began her industry career in 1961 as a stenographer for the Pacific Coast Meat Jobbers Association, l...

08/03/2026

🏆 We're proud to celebrate six of our customers who were recognized as the Best Butcher Shop in their State by Tasting Table!

⭐ Today's Featured Shop
Marrow Detroit Provisions - Michigan Winner!
Congratulations to the entire team on this well-deserved recognition!