Food Safety and Quality Planning
April 14, 2015 - Fremont CA USCompliance4all
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Overview: America's food supply is occasionally described as "the safest in the world" yet the recalls continue. This session focuses on how to combine food quality and food safety planning into a single team exercise that allows the identification and definition of controls that cover HACCP on the food safety side while assuring the quality and shelf life of delivered product. Planning activities are generally considered preventive in nature. It is somewhat naïve to separate quality from food safety since quality foods must be considered safe in order to meet most definitions of quality. Certainly no consumer wants to buy a good looking head of lettuce that is adulterated with E. coli or dangerous pesticides. Yet, the look, taste and feel of food represent the primary marketing foci for many companies. And most companies fail to combine the food safety and the food quality components into a single coordinated plan that can be managed as preventive business functions. The strategy presented in this webinar will allow any grower, distribution, packing, or processing operation to begin combining critical quality and food safety elements into a cohesive, preventive plan. There are new ways of food production evolving that meet simultaneous environmental, quality, safety and nutrition. A simple aquaponics farm, for example provides us with an opportunity to establish both food quality and food safety controls in a preventive manner - at the source.. Using aquaponics as an example allows for planners to visualize the processes involved including operational definition and flowcharting; process controls, hazards, test requirements: worker, facility, harvest, shipping and controls as well as the identification of unknown local contaminants. Such planning can be done teams using simple using excel spreadsheets and flow charting strategies. Regardless of the type of food handling operation, combined quality and food safety planning provides an opportunity to cover details often missed before the auditor arrives. Why should you Attend: The food industry has expanded and become increasingly complex over the past 70 years. With a dependence on visual audits by internal and FDA auditors and vastly expanded distribution channels, the need to build control systems that combine food safety and quality expertise, personnel and practices has become increasingly apparent. For the past 40 years, the electronics industry has faced similar issues and has overcome them with competent process control practices. The food industry, meanwhile, is somewhat without guidance and often struggles with just how to approach needed changes. Compliance4All Adam Fleaming Phone: +1-800-447-9407 Event Link: http://bit.ly/1EIdPYU support@compliance4all.com www.compliance4all.com