Risk communicators should be aware of the uncertainties in the science underlying food safety as well as their own potential biases. Do you understand what this means for your food safety messaging around your brand?
Food safety incidents like cyberattacks are increasing, which require the use of metrics to help prevent and overcome these challenges facing food safety professionals. This is the last in a three-part series looking at enterprise risk management in food safety.
For all the food safety benefits that Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and preventive controls have brought us, perhaps public health would be better served if companies put the most effort toward managing their greatest risks instead of thinking of risk in yes/no terms.
Researchers from San Diego State University, Virginia Tech, Loyola Marymount University, and Radford University are using text mining to try to pinpoint unique words and phrases in posts online, which identify consumers' experiences with hazardous food products.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has identified three areas for research: emerging food safety risks, food chain vulnerability assessments, and fresh produce traceability.
The process for evaluating chemicals in foods and the environment advanced significantly in 1983 when the National Research Council (NRC) published the first edition of its publication Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process.
There are several definitions for enterprise risk management (ERM), all of which reflect ERM as a vital risk management process, with food safety as the top priority.