audits | Food Engineering

Challenge your third-party auditor to ensure compliance.

Challenge your auditor

Treat audits as an opportunity to improve operations

Richard F. Stier

October 8, 2021

Know what to look for in a third-party auditor to ensure food safety and regulatory compliance.

Pet Food

Pet food: Safety and quality count

While pet food production continues to flourish during the pandemic, processors take quality and safety seriously

Sharon Spielman

December 3, 2020

All pet food manufacturers must address the same basic principles of food safety as their human food counterparts.

Food Safety

Do third-party audits need a revision?

Food and beverage companies often view audits as something to pass instead of necessary improvement tools

Richard F. Stier

September 25, 2020

Food and beverage processors should encourage third-party audit firms to be more critical and eliminate checklists.

What processors need to know about environmental monitoring

Richard F. Stier

December 17, 2019

Do we need to establish a program for environmental monitoring for pathogens?

Food Safety

Food defense has become a critical aspect of food safety audits

Richard F. Stier

April 17, 2019

Food defense is now an integral element in almost all third-party audit schemes, in particular ones from the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

Food Safety

Why companies should do internal audits during off hours

Expanding internal audits to different times of day can help strengthen food safety.

Richard F. Stier

March 22, 2017

Third-party auditors rarely come into food plants during night shift, which really is a mistake.

3-A-certified flexible screw conveyor and hopper

Food Safety

3-A SSI and EHEDG: Yin & yang

For the last 20 years, 3-A SSI and EHEDG have been working together to create a synergistic set of hygienic design, testing and implementation standards for process equipment.

Wayne Labs

October 13, 2015

No one ever said 3-A Sanitary Standards Inc. (3-A SSI) and the European Hygienic Engineering and Design Group (EHEDG) guidelines were supposed to be compatible or directly interchangeable in an “apples to apples” sense. In fact, they were conceived at different times, in different parts of the world and with different needs in mind.

Food Safety

Understanding all the implications of an internal audit

Richard F. Stier

June 27, 2015

Most audit schemes around the world include an internal audit.

New whitepaper helps food and beverage manufacturers prepare for audit process

Jeremy Gerrard

September 24, 2014

A new whitepaper made available by InfinityQS International, Inc. is targeting food and beverage manufacturers by offering ways to help them prepare for the audit process.

Food Safety

GMPs, FSMA and GFSI: Making the Right Connections

Good manufacturing practices play an obvious role in both FSMA and GFSI schemes, but in reality, you won’t pass FSMA muster or obtain a GFSI certification if you haven’t done your GMP homework.

Wayne Labs

August 7, 2014

As FDA regulations spell out in 21 CFR Part 110, good manufacturing practices (GMPs) or current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs) are the basics you need to know and perform to keep the food products you make free of adulteration—whether from bacteria or chemicals.