Roberta Wagner, Director, Office of Compliance at CFSAN, talks about how FDA will determine if a facility is high-risk or non high-risk, and how the agency will handle foreign facility inspections under FSMA.
Prof. P C Vasavada provides a preview of his upcoming presentation at the Food Safety Consortium, in which he will speak about food safety testing trends, and discuss approaches for testing of food and food plant environment, emphasizing microbial and other significant food hazards.
“Food defense is different from preventive controls and food defense cannot be prescriptive—it needs to be tied to a facility-specific risk evaluation,” says Shannon Cooksey, Senior Director at the Grocery Manufacturers Association.
Adopting a couple different methods of verification, such as ATP swabs and microbial testing, done in a couple dozen strategic locations throughout your plant, should suffice to verify that your plant has been properly cleaned and sanitized, says 3M Food Safety’s Camila Gadotti.
Training is a journey, not a destination. So start looking at training as the best investment you can make in your people, products and brands.
Microbiological Method Validation: The Elephant in the Lab
Although commonly overlooked, microbiological method validation studies are the linchpins of entire quality programs, and method validations done without rigor are crippling our industry’s ability to truly ensure the quality and safety of foods on a daily basis.
Implement these 10 concepts to bring training and education full circle, and to provide forward momentum in the process of developing a fully engaged and highly productive workforce.
Being in compliance means operating your business in a manner that means less risk, better quality, safety and governance. Compliance management software is designed to help foster this concept, so what do you need it to be?
Continuous verification of supplier qualification and compliance is as important for food manufacturers and food processors, as it is for food retailers.
The pathogen kill-step is the most important step in the body fluid clean-up process. The preferred option is to use a disinfectant grade chemical instead of regular sanitizers.
