Crisis Management – Nuno F. Soares

Fraud thrives in times of crisis – Act now to protect your petfood business

September 29, 2020

Many businesses see technical risk management as a cost to the business. However, consider the scenario of food fraud destroying trust, sales and profitability of your business. Why is fraud such a hot topic in the food and petfood industries? I would say because everyone knows that it exists (we just don’t know the [...]

5 Tips to sustain Food Safety Budget Nuno F. Soares article

Crisis Management, Finances, Organizational Risks

5 Tips to Sustain a Food Safety Budget Even in Times of Crisis

September 1, 2020

Food Safety Professionals should make the point that Food Safety (or better, the inability to guarantee Food Safety) is an organizational risk and probably one of the most significant food business have to address. Often, food safety professionals struggle to secure the resources needed to guarantee food safety in their organizations. The current corona-virus [...]

COVID-19, Crisis Management

COVID 19 Impact on the Food Industry – From Reaction to Proaction

June 1, 2020

It is time to progress from a reactive mindset to a proactive one. We have been living in a place of fear, where we as humankind are reacting to the new circumstances doing our best to minimize human loss and infection. It is time to take what we already know (science based) and develop the [...]

Crisis Management, FSSC 22000

Crisis Management Planning and Preparedness – A Comparison among FSSC, BRC, IFS and SQF

May 1, 2020

The good news is there is no evidence that COVID-19 can be transmitted through food as a medium. However, other viruses such as norovirus and hepatitis have been noted for their involvement in foodborne infections. The spread of COVID-19 around the world have highlighted the importance for the food industry to have a contingency [...]

Crisis Management, Recalls

Product recall in food industry

October 1, 2018

Food scandals can be frightening due to the harm they cause and fear that people feel, but unfortunately, they happen from time to time. For example, on Friday March 17th 2017, the Brazilian federal police accused some of the country’s biggest meat producers of corrupting health inspectors to turn a blind eye to bad practices, including [...]