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Capacity Building and Legislation Are Key to Food Safety in Emerging Nations

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 8/09/18

By Lauren Solar The Foreign Supplier Verification Rule that the US Food and Drug Administration has introduced recently as part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) now puts the onus for ensuring food safety in emerging nations into the hands of first-world food retailers and manufacturers who wish to import into the United States. […]

Training Principles for Improved Foreign Material Detection

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 5/09/18

By Beth Driscoll One of the most common customer complaints manufacturers receive relates to foreign material – physical objects that the consumer doesn’t expect to be in their food – and most companies have equipment in place to detect and remove contaminated products. But having this equipment isn’t enough: your employees need training to understand […]

Home Food Delivery a Ticking Time Bomb that Needs Regulation

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 4/10/18

By Jaan Koel According to global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, home food delivery is a $100 billion-plus market, and covers about 1% of the global food business. Many companies, such as Uber, Postmates, Grubhub and others, are speeding into it, and the leader, UberEats, is now available in 120 countries. The number of […]

Meal Kit Delivery Services May Be Convenient: But How Would a Recall Work?

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 4/10/18

By Brian Kellerman The trend towards busy families and professionals utilizing meal kit delivery services to save valuable time without having to abandon the kitchen is most likely here to stay. However, one aspect of this trend that has not yet been fully considered is the relatively high level of food safety risk inherent in […]

Air Management Critical for Safe Food Production

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 11/09/17

By Jaan Koel Air as an ingredient in food? Some would say “absolutely it is!” In fact, one stream of thought promotes the idea that air, like every raw material, additive, spice, and even food packaging, should be considered an ingredient in its own right, and subject to just as much care and concern as […]

Do You Need to Strengthen Your Food Safety Culture? Ask These Four Questions First

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 1/14/17

By Neil Coole A strong food safety culture has been sought by food manufacturers, processors and packers around the world for a number of years now, and it continues to be discussed and debated at board level within these organisations without a clear path as to how best to achieve it. Fundamentally, organizations are looking […]

Leveraging the Front Line for Food Safety Training

Written by Global Food Safety Resource on 10/05/16

By Andrew Kramer Co-operative education, or “co-op”, as it’s commonly called, has successfully existed in Canada at the university level since the 1950s. With the continued implementation of the directives of the Safe Food for Canadians Act, it’s a challenge for companies to remain staffed for the resulting workloads. But co-op students can be an […]

ROI: is Food Safety Certification Worth the Investment?

Written by Joan Martino on 8/03/16

By Joan Martin ROI = Gains – Costs/ Costs, expressed as percent. Does this simple formula make sense in the world of food safety? Some would say that food safety cannot be measured in the same way we look at profitability in a business and that it should not be part of the equation. Food […]

Common Non-conformities to a GFSI Scheme: What To Watch For

Written by Mark Mendonca on 7/05/16

By Mark Mendonca In an industry where there is an abundance of auditable schemes, standards, regulations, and requirements, it is little wonder that even the most seasoned professional can become confused by the requirements in a particular scheme. And if you were to talk about Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) schemes to anyone in the […]

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Promotes Global Food Safety

Written by Susie Hoeller on 6/03/16

By Susan L. (Susie) Hoeller The Trans-Pacific Partnership (the “TPP”) is a trade agreement among 12 Pacific Rim countries. It is the biggest trade deal in history. The treaty was signed by the participating countries’ foreign ministers on February 4, 2016, in Auckland, New Zealand in recognition of the fact that former New Zealand Prime […]

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