Items Tagged with 'food safety management'

Food manufacturers face stricter demands as recalls and outbreaks push a more reactive focus on food safety. Responsibility is shifting from quality teams to shared ownership, using cross-functional approaches to improve safety, compliance, and daily practices.

Food safety underpins every aspect of food manufacturing, yet new CRB research shows cost and competing priorities continue to hinder improvements. This month's From the Editor explores why investing in hygienic design and facility planning remains essential.

You know the origins of all your ingredients and everything that happened during the processing, cooling and freezing of your product, but what can you know about your product once it leaves your premises? This is the job of the track part of track-and-trace.

In a recent podcast, Bonna Cannon, president, owner and principal consultant of Bonnafide LLC, discusses how to prioritize true food safety over audit preparation, turning audit insights into operational improvements and building food safety into plant design.

Manufacturers now have a grace period to get the right systems, processes and teams in place. If you move quickly, you can use this time to implement a traceability strategy that not only meets compliance but builds long-term supply chain resilience.

Recent regulatory moves appear to shift the burden of food safety to manufacturers, but they’re already taking steps to ensure quality food production – including designing facilities with safety in mind.

Successful, industry-leading food manufacturers regularly use audits to identify potential risks and verify the effectiveness of their internal controls.

Today’s safety practices are increasingly enabled by sensors, software and cloud platforms, which not only improves compliance and traceability — it reshapes how the industry thinks about readiness, training and operational excellence.

Fortrex says its new name represents its stature as the first line of defense against harmful contaminants in the food supply.

Trevor Craig, corporate senior technical director of engagement and consulting at Microbac Laboratories, covers developing an allergen risk assessment, ensuring product label accuracy and creating a recall plan.