This article explores the food safety challenges of the labor-heavy catering sector, including the pervasive lack of food safety culture and management commitment; the need for creative solutions in process monitoring for large facilities; how to build an effective training program for a catering facility; and how to handle customer complaints, including the importance of root cause analysis.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland recently published an audit report that focused on food businesses’ levels of compliance with food law as it relates to traceability and labeling for meat products.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we interview Marc Cwikowski, Founder and Managing Director of All Food Consulting and Co-Founder at World of Auditing, about how food companies can develop risk-based audit strategies, the importance of aligning business priorities with audit priorities, ways that food companies can maximize the value of audits, how auditing can improve traceability and transparency, achieving preparedness for supply chain challenges, and the future of food safety auditing.
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently held its third annual Health Talks on Food Safety in honor of World Food Safety Day, which explored how industry and regulators can achieve “safer food, better health” by influencing consumer behavior, intentionally structuring food safety systems, and improving the supply chain.
Food safety has always been an important issue, but like workplace health and safety, its profile is growing and must be viewed as a business essential.
An interactive educational session with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday morning of the 2022 Food Safety Summit examined how advancing traceability and adopting new tracing technologies can help protect consumers from contaminated food.
The Specialty Soya and Grains Alliance's quality assurance plan, Identity Preserved, benefits global food manufacturers by meeting growing demand for transparency in the food production supply chain and by ensuring the origin, quality, consistency, and safety of food crops.
The Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) aims to explore how technology can enhance traceability solutions in the produce sector with a new working group.
Food Safety Matters kicks off 2022 with an interview with Jennifer McEntire, Chief Food Safety and Regulatory Officer of the newly formed International Fresh Produce Association.
Supply chain is critical to any food safety program. Having full control and traceability of raw materials and end products is no longer an option, but rather a requirement. In the past two years, the pandemic has exposed new weaknesses and made visible the business risks posed by an unstable supply chain.
