Management in food safety includes safeguarding business continuity and product quality through risk assessment, personnel and industry training, sharing best practices and case studies, and establishing robust food defense mechanisms.
The COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic that began in 2019 has impacted food safety, primarily in relation to facility sanitation, worker hygiene, personnel shortages and turnover, and ongoing supply chain disruptions.
Food safety culture is an essential, measurable, and sometimes regulated tool for managing food safety in an organizational context. It encompasses accepted behaviors, habits, values, norms, history, and expectations for the myriad ways in which food companies ensure safe food production for consumers.
Best practices in food safety include practices and processes that are followed, recommended, and shared by industry as safe, sustainable, recommended steps to ensure food safety, worker safety, consumer safety, and successful continuity of business operations.
Case studies examine real-life examples or scenarios involving regulatory enforcement or industry best practices in action, analysis of crisis management, technology being used to address contamination of food, or research studies of past events and data.
Food defense is concerned with the safeguarding of the food infrastructure and supply chain from acts of intentional adulteration or tampering, as well as the security of food businesses.
International food safety covers strategies, regulations, initiatives, and challenges to food safety and quality on global, regional, national, and other scales.
Crisis management encompasses government and industry management of food safety crises such as foodborne illness outbreaks and associated recalls. Food and beverage recalls by food companies or retail outlets may be due to contamination or adulteration.
Risk assessment involves strategies, practices, and protocols for assessing, analyzing, and mitigating risks to food safety and quality in business operations.
Voluntary and compulsory trainings for food safety and quality professionals are offered through government, industry, academic, and corporate programs, classes, internships, certification courses, conferences, and other learning modes.
The results of the eighth annual Global Food Safety Training Survey, which assesses the quality and implementation of food safety training at food businesses worldwide, were recently published, revealing a critical need for improvement.
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) recently announced educational workshops taking place in July ahead of the 2024 IFT FIRST: Expo and Event, covering artificial intelligence (AI) for food innovation, shelf life best practices, Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) determinations and product development, and other topics.
The Keynote presentation at the 2024 Food Safety Summit (FSS), titled, “Being Right is Not Enough: Leading Food Safety in a Corporate and Global Environment,” took place on Wednesday morning, presented by Mary Weaver Gertz, Chief Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) Officer at Yum! Brands Inc.
Successful change management programs provide transparency into the manufacturing process and allow for guidance and collaboration to help improve changes.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) will host a webinar on May 10, 2024 for stakeholders to learn more about and explore ways to take part in World Food Safety Day on June 7.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has announced the launch of the Reduce the Need for Antimicrobials on Farms for Sustainable Agrifood Systems Transformation (RENOFARM) initiative, a global 10-year effort to mitigate the growing public health threat that is antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
A total of 313 food product recall announcements were issued in 2023 by FDA and USDA, which the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG) Education Fund analyzed in its Food for Thought 2024 report to identify recall trends.
In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we are joined by Francine Shaw, CP-FS, FMP, Founder and CEO of Savvy Food Safety Inc. and author of Who Watches the Kitchen? for a discussion about foodservice food safety, including topics like common food safety mistakes and mitigation practices, technologies for retail food safety, and more. Additionally, Bob Ferguson discusses his latest “Food Safety Insights” column on food safety professionals’ thoughts about the future of rapid testing.
The fifth annual meeting of the International Head of Food Agencies Forum (IHFAF) convened in Singapore from April 16–20, 2024, bringing together food safety officials from 18 countries and representatives from international food safety and public health organizations.
On May 9, 2024, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will hold a webinar via Zoom to discuss the food safety aspects that need to be considered and addressed when using environmental inhibitors in agrifood systems.
On Demand:In this webinar, this expert panel will focus on the restaurant and grocery store perspectives. Attendees will walk away with actual strategies to immediately improve food safety culture at their organizations.
On Demand: In this webinar, the speakers will discuss the RCA workshop they led at the 2023 Food Safety Summit that included a hands-on exercise and the presentation of case studies, and they will preview their planned RCA session at the 2024 Food Safety Summit.
Live: May 16, 2024 at 2:00 pm EDT: From this webinar, attendees will learn how top food safety professionals define and achieve food safety business leadership.