Food Safety Software White Papers & Articles
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Supply Chain Collaboration: A Small Step For Companies, A Giant Step For Food Safety
4/11/2016
Collaboration between businesses should be the next big leap in a transparent supply chain, allowing a paradigm shift in managing dynamic global supply chains, ensuring industry safety, and further building the trust of the consumers.
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7 Common Safety Mistakes In Food Plants
3/31/2016
Safety. Ask any food manufacturer what’s top of mind these days, and that’s what they’ll say. This article illustrates seven common safety mistakes in food plants — and how to avoid them.
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Small Growers Require Big Food Safety
2/11/2016
Small growers always have to fight to be viable businesses. They don’t get the bulk discounts that larger growers get on rents, supplies, chemicals, water, or even labor. If there is bad weather or bad market in any one season, they lose everything. And during the growing season — even if everything else goes well — they must wear all hats, all the time, and the work never stops. So, small growers are not left a lot of time to ponder, or even more importantly, implement food safety practices.
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Food Processors Feed The World
10/26/2015
As an industry, we face some formidable challenges in ensuring there is enough food to feed the world’s growing population. Food security is high on the international agenda with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, estimating by 2050, feeding a global population of 9 billion will require a 70 percent increase in food production. So, what technologies can food processors implement to meet this high demand?
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FSMA Fridays: Preventive Controls For Human And Animal Food (Part Three Of Five)
10/22/2015
In the second portion of FSMA Fridays: Preventive Controls For Human And Animal Food, SafetyChain’s Jill Bender began speaking with The Acheson Group’s Dr. David Acheson and Rolando Gonzalez about environmental controls and their requirements under FSMA, as well as the FDA’s approach to supply chain controls. Here, in the third installment of the series, the trio continues the conversation about FSMA’s final rules regarding preventive controls for human and animal food mentioning how GFSI helps with FSMA compliance and some tips to help your company comply with the rules.
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How To Choose And Implement The Right Food Traceability System (Part Two Of Two)
9/29/2015
In part one of How To Choose And Implement The Right Food Traceability System, we explored five key points in determining your company’s readiness to implement an electronic food traceability system. Here, in part two, we look at which approach to traceability is right for your business and review several key points to determine which food traceability software best fits your company’s unique needs.
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The Positive Impact Of Behavioral Change On Food Safety & Productivity
9/24/2015
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How To Choose And Implement The Right Food Traceability System (Part One Of Two)
9/21/2015
If you intend to remain competitive as a food processor, there is one certainty: implementing a computerized plant floor data collection and traceability system is in your future.
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How Can You Minimize Social Media's Impact On A Food Recall?
9/10/2015
Food recalls are a permanent feature of the industry’s landscape. A badly handled social media campaign can cause considerable reputational damage to a company, which in turn can lead to a loss of revenue and market share and some companies never recover from this. Conversely, a planned and proactive social media campaign can demonstrate a company's commitment to consumer safety, and retain consumer confidence.
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5 Eye-Opening Facts About Recordkeeping Under FSMA
7/15/2015
Although food companies have lots of experience creating records, these records have never been subject to the type of scrutiny they soon will face by the Food FDA under FSMA. The FDA will not only assess whether companies adopt programs that are adequate, but also will inspect whether these programs are consistently implemented.