The current global pandemic of coronavirus (COVID-19) is impacting industries in unprecedented manners. Essential businesses that have remained open must find ways to maintain operations while protecting their employees from exposure to COVID-19. This is especially true for supermarkets and…

If you’re involved in food/beverage production and have food safety responsibilities, you’re required to fulfill Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point, or HACCP, compliance requirements (see 21 CFR parts 120 and 123). HACCP is a systematic and preventive food safety…

If you’ve worked in the food chain for a period of time, you may well be familiar with the ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Standard. However, if you’re new to the industry, you may be unfamiliar with the standard. Plus,…

Are you new (or newish?) to food safety? Would you benefit from an introduction to terms commonly used to discuss food safety? Or maybe you're a more experienced food safety expert and would just like a quick review & reminder?…

Quality control experts lean heavily on the so-called “7 Basic Tools of Quality” to fine-tune processes as part of an overall quality assurance effort. These basic QA tools are often associated with Karou Ishikawa, a Japanese thinker who’s credited as a…

Occupational Hazards in the food processing industry Employees in the meat or food processing industries face numerous health and safety hazards on the job. Some of these many risks include: 1. High Noise Levels The machines utilized in the food…