Grade - FIFSQN
Posted 16 June 2025 - 10:59 AM
Dr GMO is here to listen to your woes...
One of the worst I experienced was when someone added the wrong ingredient and, rather than flag the issue resulting in a small amount of waste, he dug the ingredient out of the hopper and kept it quiet.
Until people started saying it didn't taste right... 
A fine example where the operator was working in an environment where speaking up probably wasn't the norm!
What experiences have you had and what did the team learn from it all?
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25 years in food. And it never gets easier.
Grade - MIFSQN
Posted 16 June 2025 - 02:54 PM
Ditto -
Operator should of alerted ... But carried on
What i worry more about are the times your NOT told anything....
..... production managers & md's are the worst!!!!
Grade - PIFSQN
Posted 16 June 2025 - 03:03 PM
Luckily I don't have allergen sob stories because our formulations have been stacked for 20 years.
If you want foreign material sob stories, no call no show sob stories, mislabeling packaging sob stories, etc? Lemme know, lol.....
Grade - FIFSQN
Posted 16 June 2025 - 07:26 PM
Luckily I don't have allergen sob stories because our formulations have been stacked for 20 years.
If you want foreign material sob stories, no call no show sob stories, mislabeling packaging sob stories, etc? Lemme know, lol.....
Start that thread! At least it will be of comfort for those entering the food industry thinking they're the only ones...
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25 years in food. And it never gets easier.
Grade - PIFSQN
Posted 17 June 2025 - 01:48 PM
Start that thread! At least it will be of comfort for those entering the food industry thinking they're the only ones...
Well two weeks ago I had a guy flip out because he was fired, which led to a physical altercation. He threatened to kill me, and as the cops were dragging him out the door said it wasn't over, and I could expect payback outside of work.
That was an interesting one, lol. He was screaming "THIS IS MY WHOLE LIFE" and had been here under 10 business days, and called in sick half of those, lol....
Grade - PIFSQN
Posted 17 June 2025 - 04:25 PM
About the closest I can get is my QC tech finding a peanut in the bottling room on the ground. Had the plant director shut the line down, perform our typical floor washdown, him and I walked the line to verify nothing else could be found up near the actual bottling area (the peanut was found near palletizing).
A huge part of our allergen control program is no food/drink (other than water in x) in the GMP areas.
It's possible it got stuck in someone's shoe tread, but it's also possible someone was munching on snacks on the line. A few people 'secretly' threw the second shift supervisor under the bus, but I already had my suspicions.
Anyway. I made a bit of a show out of it since I was kind of the 'new guy' at the time. Said to the other director several times (loud enough so the line could hear, they were eavesdropping) "well, the safety of our product is really the most important thing to me. If I catch someone deliberately eating on our line, I don't care who it is, I will walk them into HR and she will walk them out the door."
I feel like this story is 'first world problems' and I am very glad I don't have to deal with any allergens other than keeping them out.
Grade - PIFSQN
Posted 17 June 2025 - 05:05 PM
About the closest I can get is my QC tech finding a peanut in the bottling room on the ground. Had the plant director shut the line down, perform our typical floor washdown, him and I walked the line to verify nothing else could be found up near the actual bottling area (the peanut was found near palletizing).
A huge part of our allergen control program is no food/drink (other than water in x) in the GMP areas.
It's possible it got stuck in someone's shoe tread, but it's also possible someone was munching on snacks on the line. A few people 'secretly' threw the second shift supervisor under the bus, but I already had my suspicions.
Anyway. I made a bit of a show out of it since I was kind of the 'new guy' at the time. Said to the other director several times (loud enough so the line could hear, they were eavesdropping) "well, the safety of our product is really the most important thing to me. If I catch someone deliberately eating on our line, I don't care who it is, I will walk them into HR and she will walk them out the door."
I feel like this story is 'first world problems' and I am very glad I don't have to deal with any allergens other than keeping them out.
If I caught someone with peanuts near my packaging:
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