5 things you must do after every food compliance audit
A food compliance audit can be undertaken for many reasons. Primarily, they are completed to assess the compliance aspects of a food safety management system. These audits can be preformed internally,
Continue reading5 ways to prevent foreign matter in your food
One of the aims of every food business should be to prevent foreign matter. It is also basic legal requirement that food does not contain any foreign matter or physical hazards. This post covers seven
Continue readingPreventing the introduction of unintended allergens
Unintended allergens can be introduced into your food business through many ways. This can become a major issue especially if your food production or retail site does not handle allergenic materials or
Continue readingHow to challenge your food defense plan
The aim of a food defense plan is to identify how your food business is going to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration. However, like most contingency planning, the identification of potential
Continue readingHow to manage social media during a recall
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:53 — 22.3MB)Have you ever had to manage social media during a food recall? Even though you may not have experienced a food recall, it may only
Continue readingHow to develop your foreign object register
A foreign matter register can help your food business manage potential physical hazards. Like any type of hazard control, when you can identify where potential problems may occur, you can put sufficient
Continue readingHow to set up an integrated food safety system
In a perfect world we would just have one food safety standard for compliance. Unfortunately, there are a myriad of standards ranging from local and export food law, GFSI recognised standards and additional
Continue readingHow to stop product being packed into incorrect food packaging
It seems like a pretty easy concept but unfortunately packing food product into incorrect food packaging is an all to common practice within the food industry. This error of judgement, can have the potential
Continue readingHow to schedule your internal food safety audits
In the words of Benjamin Franklin, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”. This is no different when it comes to scheduling your internal food safety audits. From my experience, I have
Continue readingVerify your food labels with this simple check
Completing verification checks of your food labels can save your business thousands of dollars along with avoiding a food product recall. In this post, find out one of the simplest checks that you can
Continue readingWhat you should include in your Maintenance Program
Implementing a preventative maintenance program in your food business helps to keep your equipment and production running. But what elements should you include? In this post, discover six (6) key elements
Continue readingHow to complete record verification in your food business
Record verification is an essential component of any robust HACCP or food safety program. Without it, food safety issues may go unnoticed which can lead to jeopardizing the health of your consumer and
Continue readingWhat is a contract service provider?
In the context of food safety and HACCP, a contract service provider can be defined as any person or organisation that provides a service to your organisation that can have an impact on your food safety
Continue readingEasy ways to provide HACCP information to your customer
Providing HACCP information to your customers is essential in maintaining a good relationship. In this context, your customers could be food retailers, food manufacturers or food brokers / importers. This
Continue readingHow to handle food contaminated with blood
Food contaminated with blood is in the media this week after it was reported that a family is suing Starbucks. Two years ago, they allegedly found a barista’s blood smeared on a cup containing their
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