Food Safety Through the Eyes of the Consumer: What Does That Mean for You?
What does “Food Safety Through the Eyes of the Consumer” Mean for You? That was the question food processor William Thomas posed at the 12th Annual North American Summit on Food Safety in Toronto recently. Thomas is CEO of Thomas Canning (Maidstone) Ltd., a tomato processing company located in Ontario, Canada. His company is the […]
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Mobile Forensic Testing Labs: Meeting the Need for Faster Response
Time is of the essence when a food-related incident is brewing and our standard mechanisms for response are not doing us any favours. Sudden and widespread outbreaks of food-borne pathogens are often characterized by delays in collecting good samples, shipping these perishable samples, extracting and testing them, and then reporting back with the results. In […]
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3 Ways Businesses Can Improve their HACCP Coordination Processes
Ensuring food safety at all stages is a critical part of operations for a food business so it’s important to have a robust food safety program in place. This has a strong bearing on ensuring that the enterprise operates in accordance with the existing laws and best practices and although there are numerous ways to […]
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The Inspectors Are Coming! Are You Ready?
Is there a frenzy in your production plant the day before the audit? Are you putting in un-paid overtime hours to get things ready for the audit, hoping everything is perfect so you will not lose points? After all that preparation, do you still feel like the auditor is on a witch-hunt? If you answer […]
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Three Things you Need to Know About Preventive Controls
It’s been 5 years since we first started talking about preventive controls, and even though the FDA rules are now final, there is still a fair amount of uncertainty around how to implement the Preventive Controls (PC) rule. Here is what you need to know: 1) Preventive controls is not the same as HACCP. Despite […]
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The GLOBALG.A.P. – Weeding Out the Roots of Contamination
Today’s agriculture industry is complex and globalized and when contamination occurs, it’s hard to track the source. This was highlighted by the 2011 E. coli outbreak in Europe. Authorities mistakenly implicated a number of countries and products, inadvertently hurting farmers’ livelihoods. Eventually, contaminated sprouts in Germany were identified as the main source of the outbreak. […]
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Can I Have That in Writing?
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) three out of four companies surveyed experienced Risk/Compliance incidents due to document process failures So is it the procedure or the process that is broken? In some cases, it is both. The bottom line is that the costs related to poorly-driven processes and documentation are staggering and they […]
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Education and Technology: Incubators for Improving Food Safety in China
Ask anyone in the grocery aisle what their thoughts are on purchasing food products in China and you’ll get an earful. Ask Chinese nationals what they think of their own food products and you’ll learn that they have an even deeper mistrust of the food that originates in China. Unfortunately, that’s all they’ve got. Recently […]
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Socially Responsible Practices Drive Innovation in the Food Industry
In the public mind, innovation means Silicon Valley, digital technology and social media. However, the food industry has been undergoing an intense period of innovation – but with much less fanfare. For the most part, the innovation in the food industry has been driven by entrepreneurs responding to evolving consumer demand for healthier food, transparency […]
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Halal and Kosher Certifications Are Great…but Certify to a GFSI Standard First
You can’t count on halal certification to minimize food safety risks – and neither will your customers. You’ve just become certified to a halal standard. It wasn’t easy – the list of requirements is long and rigorous. But you have confidence that it was a smart business move. There’s a big customer base out there, […]
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