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 | Jan 5, 2022 | Management
Image of the Quality Department is … boring I often hear people say that quality and food safety is boring, only costs money and everything has to be according to QA department’s wishes. Or even that the employees of the ‘Quality’ Department...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Sep 29, 2021 | Management
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...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Sep 1, 2020 | Management
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...
