Food Safety Software White Papers & Articles
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Top 6 Best Practices For Your Allergen Control Program
3/27/2015
The Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) Proposed Rule for Preventive Controls for Human Food has two major features – provisions requiring hazard analysis and riskbased preventive controls, and revisions to the existing Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) requirements found in 21 CFR part 110.
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Why All the Fuss about Natural Food Claims?
3/27/2015
As Americans become more health-conscious food manufacturers must walk the line between making all natural product claims and being 100% truthful in their statements. What defines "natural" anyway? How can food manufacturers know with certainty that their "natural" claims are truthful?
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The Benefits Of Automating Your Company's Food-Safety Program
3/26/2015
It’s rare for the terms “food safety” and “software” to be used together in the same sentence. However, with the migration from manual to automated systems occurring in almost every other industry, is it time for food manufacturers and processors to move into the 21st Century?
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Improving The Safety Of Pumped Food Products
11/15/2014
Food manufacturers are under increasing consumer and legislative pressure to provide safe food. One of the tools that helps to maintain food safety is x-ray inspection.
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Taking The First Steps Toward FSMA Compliance
10/27/2014
Since the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law in 2011, food manufacturers have been intently watching for signs of what the final regulations will look like, how they will be enforced, and the timeline for implementation. FSMA not only formalizes a shift in focus from response to prevention of contamination, it is also the first time that scientific, risk prevention will be a universal requirement for food manufacturers.
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Lessons Learned From The 2014 Global Food Safety Training Survey
5/30/2014
The Second Annual Global Food Safety Training survey released in January 2014 was developed to help food processors and manufacturers compare and benchmark their training protocols and implementation against other national and global firms.
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Protect Your Brand: Ensuring Food Safety And Compliance With A Quality Management System
3/31/2014
Although food safety and compliance have long been of critical importance for companies across the Food & Beverage (F&B) supply chain, today’s legislative bodies as well as consumers are only increasing focus on it. Adulterated products making their way into the food supply are driving the need for more accountability and ownership of the quality of products and processes. Compounding these pressures, with the viral nature of today’s global environment, even a minuscule adverse event can have disproportionate backlash on branding, reputation, and profitability.
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The Future Role Of Ethernet And The Trend To Decentralized Control Solutions
4/18/2013
The driving force behind progress in Industrial automation in the last 10 years has without doubt been the networking of automation products via bus systems.
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Creating Harmonized Food Safety Processes Through Integration
9/16/2011
The Food and Beverage industry is increasingly adapting the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) as its “stamp” of high quality and safety. The GFSI-benchmarked food safety schemes coupled with regulatory oversight are driving organizations to seek methods of enhancing visibility into their quality and safety operations. An automated Food Safety Management System (FSMS) is one of these methods.
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White Paper: Automation In The Food Industry
3/15/2011
Automation is one of those terms that almost defines itself; automation is, well, that which is automated. More precisely, automation is the use of control systems linked with other computer technologies to control production in industrial operations with minimal human intervention. By George Melnykovich, Senior Advisor, FPSA