Comparing Food Recall Procedures between Europe and the USA
By Cesare Varallo Regulation is an important issue for anyone who takes food from farm to fork, no matter what side of the Atlantic Ocean they’re on. But there are some dramatic differences in how the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) handle food recalls, especially when it comes to communicating the impact […]
Categories: Food Recalls, Food Safety Trends, Global Import/Export, Regulatory Compliance, Risk Management
Tags: EU Commission , exporting food , Food Recall Procedures , rasff , rasff portal , regulatory update
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Communicating for Food Safety: Seven Steps on the Ladder to Success
By Joan Martino Some would agree that 90% of a manager’s job is communicating, yet many managers fail to take the time to plan for proper communications. It’s a big job. Yet it can make all the difference in effectively resolving food safety problems. Communication is a process and this is how it works: An […]
Categories: Risk Management, Supply Chain Management
Tags: food safety culture , HACCP , preventative controls , risk communications
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Your FSMA Preventive Controls Checklist
By: Sarah Malenich Food companies have become increasingly concerned over how they’re going to meet the new FSMA requirements and, as a result, standard owners are stepping up to provide modules, or checklists, that can help businesses meet the new FSMA requirements. SQFI is devoting a lot of resources to this project. Consuming safe food […]
Categories: Food Safety Modernization Act, Preventive Controls
Tags: Food Safety Modernization Act , Food Safety Requirements , FSMA Preventive Controls , FSMA Preventive Controls Checklist , FSMA Requirements
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Leveraging the Front Line for Food Safety Training
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 […]
Categories: Food Safety, Preventive Controls, Train the Trainer, Training and Courses
Tags: food safety Co-operative education , food safety culture , Food Safety Training , FSMA Preventive Controls Checklist
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Growers can Improve Processes and Compliance with CanadaGAP
When the CanadaGAP certification program first became available in 2008, no one realized that program uptake would expand so rapidly: as of last year, there were 3,000 companies enrolled in the program nation-wide, with a 14% increase in participants logged in 2015 alone. Designed as a food safety program for companies that produce, handle and […]
Categories: Canadian Standards, Food Safety Certification, Global Standards
Tags: CanadaGAP certification , CanadaGAP program , Food safety program , growers and producers
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Rethinking the Global Approach to Food Fraud: A Comparative Overview
By Cesare Varallo I had the chance to lead a panel on food fraud this summer at Alberto Alemanno’s Summer Academy in Global Food Law & Policy and I and my panel co-chair, Francesco Montanari, found the experience very insightful. The Summer Academy is an established one-week summer program that brings together practitioners, policymakers, industry […]
Categories: Crisis Management, Food Recalls, Food Safety Standards, Global Import/Export, Global Supply Chain, Regulatory Compliance
Tags: adulterated food , exporting food , food fraud , Food Supply System , mitigating risk , Risk Management , Supply Chain Management
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ROI: is Food Safety Certification Worth the Investment?
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 […]
Categories: Food Safety, Food Safety Certification
Tags: Food safety certification , food safety certification benefits , food safety certification roi , return on investment
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Common Non-conformities to a GFSI Scheme: What To Watch For
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 […]
Categories: A Global View, Food Safety
Tags: food safety audit , Global Food Safety Initiative
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Promotes Global Food Safety
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 […]
Categories: Food Safety, Food Safety Standards, Food Safety Trends, Regulatory Compliance
Tags: TPP agreement , TPP countries , Trans-Pacific Partnership
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The Dirty Thirties’ Second Coming?
By: Sylvain Charlebois Most experts believe major fires at Fort Mc Murray suggest we should become accustomed to major disasters that may be linked to the long-term effects of climate change. Climate change is affecting anything and everything, but stakes are different in the Prairies. In fact, according to a recent study from Manitoba, the […]
Categories: Food Safety Challenges, Risk Management
Tags: climate change , national food strategy , Sylvain Charlebois
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