by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 10, 2023 | Algemeen
How to Convince Your Management about the Importance of Implementing Allergen Management As a food safety professional, you understand the importance of allergen management in ensuring the safety of food products for consumers with food allergies. However, convincing...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 7, 2023 | Algemeen
Hygiene Hazards in the Food Industry: Overcoming the Challenges of Cleaning and Disinfection Cleaning and disinfection are essential processes in the food industry to ensure the safety and quality of food products. However, these processes pose various challenges that...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 7, 2023 | Algemeen
RASCI Tips for Ensuring Clarity and Accountability In the food industry, safety is paramount. From growers and producers to processors and retailers, everyone has a role to play in ensuring that the food we eat is safe and of high quality. Defining RASCI – that...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Feb 28, 2023 | Algemeen
WHY HACCP is a Challenge for the QA department Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) is a food safety management system that has become an industry standard for ensuring the safety of food products. The HACCP system involves identifying and controlling...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Jun 21, 2022 | Algemeen
HOW to start with Your QA Work Many of us work with great enthusiasm in the food industry. The food industry is one of the industries where there are plenty of challenges. In my experience, many QA and QC employees love a challenge. As a result, this work certainly...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | May 16, 2022 | Management
CAPA, What Does CAPA Stand For? One of the questions I often get is: ” WHAT does CAPA stand for?”. CAPA is the short name for Corrective and Preventive Actions. Many of us are focused on the CA-part to implement corrective actions. However, the PA-part to...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 5, 2022 | Management
Food Safety And The Challenge of Goals Time flies when you are having fun and time flies when you are busy solving issues. How did you experience your last few months? Where you very busy with appraisal meetings with your staff? Secondly, did you and your staff make a...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 4, 2022 | Management
The Right QA-Person To Perform The Right Task In the last couple of years many things have changed. A lot of companies had to pivot. We saw issues with not having enough staff to perform the job, ingredients that were not available, energy and transportation costs...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 2, 2022 | Allergen, Food Safety
What is the biggest challenge with Allergens? According to a poll I created many of us find the following challenging: What is Cross-Contamination? The definition of Cross-Contamination is according to the Cambridge Dictionary ‘the process by which a...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Feb 18, 2022 | Allergen, Food Safety, Labelling
What are the Challenges with Allergen Management? You probably know someone who has an intolerance or an allergy for something. Let’s focus on allergens in the food industry. Although all foods have the potential to cause an allergic reaction, most food allergies are...
