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New Posts Consumer Food Safety - Help & Information
Do you have a question about food safety in the home? Want to know how to store, handle and cook food to keep it safe and your family healthy? Get answers and advice from the food safety experts.
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Have you been made ill after eating at a restaurant, café or hotel? Want to know what standards of hygiene to expect in food service, shops and supermarkets? Want to complain? Get answers and advice from the food safety experts.
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Discussion forum for front line food safety at home and in foodservice, commercial kitchens, catering, restaurants, hotels, fast food take-aways, cafes, delis, shops and street vendors etc.
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Forum on the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system for all links in the food chain - from farm to fork!
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Food microbiology is the study of food pathogens and food spoilage organisms as well as organisms involved in food production (i.e. fermented foods). Discuss how we can identify and culture them, how they live, how and why some infect and cause illness and disease and in some cases how we can make use of their activities.
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Food Defense is the protection of food products from intentional adulteration by biological, chemical, physical, or radiological agents. It addresses additional concerns including physical, personnel and operational security."
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New Posts ISO 22000
Published on 01 September 2005, ISO 22000 will make it easier for organizations worldwide to implement the Codex HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) system for food hygiene in a harmonized way. Discuss the ISO 22000 standard and share tools and techniques for getting registered.
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New Posts FSSC 22000: Food Safety System Certification scheme
FSSC 22000 contains a complete certification scheme for Food Safety Systems based on the food safety management standard ISO 22000: 2005 ‘Requirements for any organization in the food chain’ and the publicly available specification for Prerequisite programs on food safety for food manufacturing, BSI-PAS 220: 2008. The scheme is using existing standards for certification (ISO 22000, PAS 220 and ISO 22003) and the certification will be accredited under the standard ISO guide 65 (process certification).
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New Posts BRC Global Standard - Food
Issue 5 of the “Global Standard for Food Safety” was published 4 January 2008. Discuss the standard here.
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Issue 3 of the “Global Standard for Packaging and Packaging Materials” was published 4 January 2008. Discuss the standard here.
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New Posts International Food Standard (IFS)
The International Food Standard (IFS) was established by the German retail industry to provide a basis for auditing producers of retail branded food products. Discuss the IFS here.
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New Posts The SQF (Safe Quality Food) Program
The SQF Program provides two standards based on the type of food supplier: The SQF 1000 Code for primary producers and growers and the SQF 2000 Code for the manufacturing, processing and distribution sectors. Both are based on the HACCP method and principles.
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Discussion on all other food safety standards including American Institute of Baking - AIB, Food Safety and Standards Compliance - FDA, EFSIS Standard, EurepGAP, IFS Transport, Logistic and Storage Standard, BRC Global Standard – Storage and Distribution and more.
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New Posts Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Information & Discussion
GFSI benchmarks existing food standards against food safety criteria to promote convergence and improve cost efficiency throughout the food supply chain through the common acceptance of GFSI recognised standards by retailers around the world. The Global Food Safety Initiative currently fully recognises five manufacturing schemes: BRC Technical Standard Version 5, Dutch HACCP (Option B), FSSC 22000, International Food Standard Version 5, SQF 2000 Level 2. There are also two recognised primary production (pre-farm gate) schemes: GlobalGAP (Fruit and Vegetable Scope Options 1 and 2 only), SQF 1000 Level 2 (against version 4 of the GFSI Guidance Document).
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New Posts ISO/IEC 17025:2005, Calibration & Testing Forum
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 specifies the general requirements for the competence to carry out tests and/or calibrations, including sampling. Discuss ISO/IEC 17025 and related calibration and Testing topics here.
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Discuss food manufacturing processes, machinery, equipment, packaging, storage and distribution and software (QA/QC, ERP) sytems.
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Forum for discussing new and emerging technologies for processing and packaging food products to preserve their quality and safety. Heating, drying, pasteurisation, irradiation, concentration, freezing, chemical preservation, chilling, fermentation, nanotechnology, aseptic packaging etc.
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Discussion on test methods and test equipment used for assuring the quality and safety of foods.
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Packaging is the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages for enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, sells. Discuss packaging materials, machinery and technology here.
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Forum for all business and quality management related topics. Discuss Customer Satisfaction Measurement, Six Sigma, Benchmarking, 5 S's, Lean Manufacturing, Business Excellence, Kaizen, Balanced Scorecard, SMED, TPM, TQM, Management Systems (ISO 9000, ISO 14000, OHSAS 18000, SA 8000), Health & Safety, the Environment, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and more.
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