Audits – Nuno F. Soares

Auditors, Audits, FSSC 22000, GFSI, ISO 22000

Auditors Qualification – GFSI’s new requirements

March 22, 2022

I was invited by Food Safety Magazine to write an article on GFSI's new requirements for auditor qualification. I talked with stakeholders and GFSI to simplify and clear all doubts food safety professionals may have on the subject. "Despite the industry’s concerns regarding the need to increase the number of auditors, the root cause of [...]

Audits, FSSC 22000, ISO 22000

Technology and conformity assessment

November 4, 2021

Auditors will be increasingly required to focus on understanding process-based auditing and to conduct real time risk assessments. Auditing prescriptive requirements and check-lists will be less important in the future. Market needs are continuously evolving and some events or extraordinary context (our current ongoing COVID 19 pandemic and its disruptive cascading systems failures) as a [...]

Auditors, Audits

Audits and Auditors

September 1, 2021

In March 2018 Shuchi Arya and I published an article about Auditors and Auditing. At the time, we had great feedback and so many great comments on it. Since then, a new version of ISO 19011 (July 2018) and, more recently, the COVID 19 pandemic unexpectedly disrupted (also) the Audits world. It seemed to make [...]

Audits, Nonconformities

A New Paradigm Shift? (from reactive to preventive and now predictive)

August 3, 2021

The predictive approach may not be per se a paradigm shift but most likely a complementary methodology to the preventive approach. For certain, we must shift our mindset to embrace it. HACCP was born in the 1960’s to change a paradigm. After World War II, there was an increase in the production of food at [...]

Audits, HACCP, Nonconformities

Go UPSTREAM, find root cause

November 1, 2020

Root cause analysis is a structural and powerful methodology used to solve problems. It requires to look beyond the solution to the immediate problem and understand the fundamental causes of the situation in order to prevent the recurrence of the same incident, problem or non-conformity. I am standing by the shore of a swiftly [...]