Food Safety Supply
There are risks to food safety throughout the entire supply chain. Buscaldi & Associates LLC QCS services explores how companies can better address food safety supply chain risks.
Addressing Food Safety Risks
The food industry’s supply chain continues to evolve and grow in complexity. Buscaldi & Associates LLC QCS helps to manage food safety risks in today’s environment, companies need to understand the challenges they face and the potential solutions available.
The Evolution of The Supply Chain
Supply chain participants are no longer limited to the first-tier supplier, the manufacturer, and the distributor. Today, participants include everyone involved from “farm to fork” in the growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, holding, and selling of a food product. A participant can have multiple roles within the same supply chain. And it’s more than likely one or more ingredients or raw products are sourced from non-domestic entities. Risks to food safety exist along each step of the farm-to-fork continuum.
Many companies—from food manufacturers to food service distributors—find it difficult to document their end-to-end supply chains. Yet it’s essential to understand the supply chain to meet GFSI or federal regulations, mitigate risks, and satisfy customer demands for supply chain authenticity and safety. Lack of understanding of potential risks can lead to food safety and quality failures, resulting in damage to the company’s reputation and sustainability. Buscaldi & Associates LLC QCS help companies understand the challenges they face, and the potential solutions available, to manage food safety risks in today’s complex supply chains.
Companies should consider addressing these challenges to allow them to proactively identify and respond to food safety and quality risks. Buscaldi & Associates LLC QCS provides a broad and integrated food safety consulting service to evaluate risk management and implementation within the GFSI (SQF – BRC) framework, which aligns companies with their food safety and quality objectives using a practical approach.
Buscaldi & Associates LLC QCS help organizations to establish a food safety and quality culture throughout the company which is the ultimate goal of the most recent GFSI requirement. Company culture is essential to set the expectation that food safety and quality is a priority across the board.
To consistently and reliably deliver safe food to consumers, companies implement process controls to check food quality and safety during manufacturing and preparation. How can your food safety/quality function and processes optimize operations and compliance management and reduce potential risks? Our Operational Excellence in Food Quality and Food Safety consulting solution can help your company address that question.
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