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Document control – make it less of a chore and more of an asset

Posted by FurFarmandFork, in Food Safety 07 August 2018 - · 18,739 views

Document control – make it less of a chore and more of an asset When I first arrived at my current role, I had come from a 19-person QA department with at least one or two people dedicated each to a portion of our program. Now I was a one-man crew, but the SQF code hadn’t changed. I had to reexamine my interpretation of the code to focus on the basic requirements and how I would be able to meet them with whatever...


Making sense of the SQF code: so what the heck is a “register”?

Posted by FurFarmandFork, in Food Safety 21 May 2018 - · 10,730 views

Making sense of the SQF code: so what the heck is a “register”? SQF has a lot of special definitions and language that can cause confusion for companies working to get newly certified. There are several mentions of “registers”, but the word register isn’t ever defined in the SQF glossary. The short answer is that a register is simply a list of all materials supporting that section of the code. But again, SQF leav...


Meeting the new requirements of SQF 8.0: 2.7.2 Food Fraud

Posted by FurFarmandFork, in Food Safety 01 April 2018 - · 17,614 views

Meeting the new requirements of SQF 8.0: 2.7.2 Food Fraud Having been through one of the first round of SQF 8.0 audits, I wanted to help other folks who may be sweating some of the new clauses. So, here’s an example of the approach I took to get me through my audit in February that may help other SQF practitioners. The requirements in the SQF code 8.0 module 2:    
 
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