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Monitoring Plans - What is the goal of your compressed air testing?
To follow the necessary regulations and ensure the safety of an end product, companies should always employ a compressed air monitoring plan . Though the goal of any monitoring plan is ultimately safety, there are var...Views: 858Read More -
ISO Align and Enhance ISO 22000
The long awaited second edition of International ISO Standard 22000 Food safety management systems — Requirements for any organization in the food chain has just been published (June 2018). Not surprisingly, there are...Views: 1703Read More -
Compressed Air: Choosing the Correct Microbial Sampling Method
International standards and internal facility health and safety regulations exist to improve and protect the health and welfare of consumers and facility employees respectively. Some regulations directly impact the pr...Views: 2265Read More -
FSMA, HACCP, and Your Compressed Air System
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) represents a significant shift in the approach to managing food-borne illness. According to the CDC, approximately 48 million people are affected by foodborne illness every yea...Views: 3293Read More -
The FSVP is the Next FSMA Compliance Date
One of the new rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). For most importers of foods into the USA, the FDA has specified that the date they will begin in...Views: 7131Read More
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Retailer QAS Quality Attribute Sheet
Today, 12:35 PM
I am now working in the game industry (20 years behind the rest) and have been challenged to produce a best in class QAS for game products. I have some pretty basic ones so... more -
Do you have any ideas for improvements I can make?
Today, 10:10 AM
Hi all I am QA manager for a smallish cardboard packaging company and have been tasked by my manager to start implementing improvements both in QA (myself and one other) an... more -
Safe Food for Canadians Act Regulations
Today, 01:03 AM
Long question short.We are food company falls under the " other food" according to the new safe food regulation and we NEED to be registered with CFIA. So I registered my C... more -
FDA Problem regarding Product Specification
Yesterday, 07:47 PM
Hello, My facility is SQF certified and was recently visited by the FDA. The "finished Product" specifications that were suffice for SQF were not enough for the... more -
Equipment for checking temperature of caramel inside the tank?
Yesterday, 06:51 PM
We have three large tanks that we use to heat and mix our caramel. Using the settings on the tanks, our caramel is usually perfect, but we don't have any data to log for quality... more -
Drain Back Procedure anyone heard of this?
Yesterday, 04:22 PM
We have recently went through an audit and they wanted a Drain Back procedure. We have a back flow procedure, that is not what she was looking for. She wanted a proc... more
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Do you have any ideas for improvements I can make?
Today, 10:10 AM
Thank you for your reply Scampi. I don't think there has been any particular trend in complaints for over the last few years, we average about 1-1.5 per month but I think t... more -
Suggestions for First time conducting supplier audit ?
Yesterday, 12:12 PM
Hi Gilles, Just as an addition to previous posts/suggestions, the audit specifics might relate to the Product / Process, ?? more -
Safe Food for Canadians Act Regulations
Today, 01:03 AM
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/food/sfcr/general-food-requirements-and-guidance/licensing/eng/1523876882572/1523876882884 Thanks Charles more -
Safe Food for Canadians Act Regulations
Today, 01:03 AM
Here is the link to the basic information Make sure you read the regs 25 times so you are clear on what you require Hi Scampi, The link appears to have disappeare... more -
How to approve suppliers that don't have GFSI Certification?
Sep 05 2018 02:32 PM
Hi Redfox, As per some previous threads, some BRC auditors in yr Locale appear to have unorthodox interpretations of the BRC FS. Hopefully above is not a widespread ch... more
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Monitoring Plans - What is the goal of your compressed air testing?
Aug 30 2018 07:52 PM
To follow the necessary regulations and ensure the safety of an end product, companies should always employ a compressed air mo... more -
ISO Align and Enhance ISO 22000
Jul 19 2018 11:24 AM
The long awaited second edition of International ISO Standard 22000 Food safety management systems — Requirements for any organ... more -
Compressed Air: Choosing the Correct Microbial Sampling Method
Jul 11 2018 06:22 AM
International standards and internal facility health and safety regulations exist to improve and protect the health and welfare... more -
FSMA, HACCP, and Your Compressed Air System
May 17 2018 08:11 PM
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) represents a significant shift in the approach to managing food-borne illness. Accordi... more -
The FSVP is the Next FSMA Compliance Date
Mar 22 2017 08:10 PM
One of the new rules under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is the Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). For mo... more
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Product Withdrawal & Recall Survey
Jul 08 2015 10:27 AM
We asked the IFSQN members to share their experience with product recalls and withdrawals within their businesses. Below are th... more -
ACET Global Consulting to Provide IFS Academy Training
Jun 27 2015 06:10 PM
ACET Global Consulting LLC, a US-based global food safety organization is now an IFS Academy training provider. ACET Global has... more -
The International Food Safety & Quality Network Annual Conference
Jun 21 2015 06:50 PM
Food Safety Live is the world’s first online food safety learning and networking conference. Join us from the comfort of your o... more -
New System Redefines Performance for GC-MS Applications
Jun 01 2015 06:14 PM
Laboratories performing food safety and authenticity, pharmaceutical, metabolomic, anti-doping and other analyses using gas chr... more -
The next revision of ISO 22000 is due 2017
May 05 2015 08:17 PM
ISO 22000:2005 Food safety management systems -- for any organization in the food chain was first published some 10 years ago... more
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Experiences with HACCP systems: strengths and weaknesses in practice
Taking Place: 21 September 2018 - 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
An effective HACCP system is essential to ensure safe food. FSSC 22000 is one of the largest global food sa... more -
Premium Practical Internal Auditor Training for Food Operations
Taking Place: 28 September 2018 - 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
This webinar will enable participants to develop practical knowledge of the principles of internal auditing... more -
Food Supply Chain – a review of industry safety requirements
Taking Place: 05 October 2018 - 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
As companies are starting to realize that their products are only as good as the ingredients and materials... more -
Premium Root Cause Identification and Problem Solving Tools in Food Safety
Taking Place: 26 October 2018 - 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
This 4 hour webinar will demonstrate the practical use of tools for risk analyzing, root cause identificati... more -
Determining Detectability of Detectable Products
Taking Place: 02 November 2018 - 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
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Food Safety Fridays - Next Live Webinar
Experiences with HACCP systems: strengths and weaknesses in practice Upcoming Webinar
Taking Place: 21 September 2018 - 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM
An effective HACCP system is essential to ensure safe food. FSSC 22000 is one of the largest global food safety management systems certification schemes and we see in practice a lot of good practices but also opportunities to improve. These experiences will be shared in this session. This will include topics like Hazard and r...
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Upcoming 4-Hour Live Training Webinar
Taking Place: 28 Sep 2018 - 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM
This webinar will enable participants to develop practical knowledge of the principles of internal auditing enabling them to participate as part of your internal audit team. The webinar provides instruction on how to implement an Internal Audit system and how to prepare, conduct and report on an internal a... more
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Document control – make it less of a chore and more of an asset
Aug 07 2018 05:28 PM
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... more
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BRC Issue 8 – Root and Branch Review and How to Address the Requirements
Sep 14 2018 04:44 PM
Presentation slides from the Food Safety Fridays webinar conducted by David Brackston, Technical... more
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FSSC 22000 version 4 Management of Purchased Services
Aug 31 2018 04:43 PM
Presentation slides from the Food Safety Fridays webinar conducted by Vladimir Surčinski, Auditor... more
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