Recall/Crisis Management

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Monitoring and maintaining the integrity of the food supply is a tough job; government agencies and food safety systems do it admirably under some very challenging circumstances.

Most recorded foodborne outbreaks are caused by raw and unprocessed or minimally processed foods.

The purpose of a food recall simulation is to determine whether your crisis plan works.  

If the claimant is indeed sick due to food poisoning, then action needs to begin immediately to deduce the cause of the illness.  

When the dust settles after a pandemic hits, the food industry and individual businesses will be judged on how they conducted operations during the pandemic.

Supply chain verification isn’t a new concept, but it is more relevant in today’s food and agriculture system than ever before.

The year 2007 was a banner year for food-related recalls, and 2008 promised to be even worse.

A paradigm shift in stakeholder communication and partnering is creating a food safety culture that should have a positive impact on reducing risk factors for food contamination events.

Given the importance of risk assessment to public health decisions, food safety agencies have established mechanisms to engage the entire food industry on such issues.

Crises arising from consumer complaints are believed to outnumber all other factors by an order of magnitude.