The Reasons why the Quality and Food Safety Management System don’t work well in many organizations
How to Keep Your Quality and Food Safety Management System Up To Date In recent years, many topics have been added to existing Quality and Food Safety Management Systems (- I’ll mention QFSMS where I mean Quality and Food Safety Management Systems, to keep it a bit...
What Skills Does a Quality Manager Need?
A Quality Manager is a very important function in a food manufacturing facility. On the other hand, there is a lot of variation in the role of a Quality Manager and of course also a lot of different skills that are needed. It al depends on how your company is...
Ethylene Oxide Your Questions answered
Ethylene Oxide, your questions answered. At Food Safety Experts we have a service called QFS Success Coaching. Our participants can schedule unlimited coaching calls with their coach and discuss the topics they would like to bring at the table. Many of our coaching...
5 Tips to Sustain a Food Safety Budget – Even in Times of Crisis
Food Safety Budget....Often, food safety professionals struggle to secure the resources needed to guarantee food safety in their organizations. The current corona-virus pandemic makes the food safety professionals' mission even more complicated. The current situation...
The Key To Successful Foreign Object Prevention
It is important to understand what foreign object or objects is / are present in food. 2018 was a record year for food recalls related to foreign objects: there was one case per week on average, according to worldwide data from Horizonscan. In absolute numbers, these...
How To Implement A Food Fraud Prevention Program And Why It’s Important
What is food fraud? Do you remember the horse meat scandal? It originated in Ireland at the beginning of 2013, when food inspectors found out that beef meat sold at common supermarkets contained considerable traces of horse meat. From there, over 15,000 tests were...
Food import & export between China and the EU
What are import food and export food requirements between China an the EU? What do you need to know? Ham treated with pesticides, fake powdered milk, expired meat sold to fast food chains and baby formula contaminated with melamine are just a few examples of the long...
How Heat Sealing Machines Work
In the early sixties hardly anybody knew how heat sealing machines work. For those of you that were born in or before the sixties, you may remember your lunch choice being made through a glass shelf on a café counter top, where the selection on offer was a bland...
How The New Official Controls Regulation Of The EU Will Affect The Food Industry
In March 2017 the EU parliament and the commission adopted Regulation 2017/625 on Official Controls on food and feed - Official Controls Regulation. Most of its provisions will be applied in December 2019. The new Regulation incorporates (and repeals) several existing...
New EU Official Controls Regulation – Implications For Authorities And Businesses
On 15 March 2017 the Official Controls Regulation on the food supply chain was adopted by the EU Parliament and Commission in Regulation 2017/625 on . The news didn't make too many waves in the industry, perhaps because - at least for the immediate future - there will...
Which Food Fraud & Other Supply Chain Hazards
Which Food Fraud and other hazards are causing issues? Did you know that approximately 50% of the major issues and recalls faced by food producers are not originating from the food producing company itself? To a large extent these major issues and recalls originate at...
How Nanotechnology is Changing the World
Introduction of Nanotechnology Picture this: you open the fridge reaching for the milk and notice that the carton has changed color: it was bright blue when you brought it home from the store but now it’s dark brown. That can only mean one thing: the milk is spoiled,...