audits – Nuno F. Soares

5 Tis to help you thru the BIG audit day-1_page-0001

This month I am sharing my latest free e-book. This is a great chance for you to join the hundreds of Food Safety Professionals that already are using my mantras to deal with audits with less stress and anxiety Have you ever felt nervous and anxious before an audit day? You are not alone! [...]

Auditors, Audits

How COVID-19 is shaping the audit world: The auditors’ opinion

July 1, 2020

All over the world, food industry organizations closed their doors to non-workers as a way to stop the spread of the virus. Auditors were also left outside the door and 2nd party and 3rd party audits were simply postponed or canceled. COVID-19 has impacted the food industry as no other event in history particularly [...]

Audits, Suppliers

Monitor Suppliers: audits or assessment?

November 1, 2019

Audits or assessment is a question that we should deal with next time planning how to monitor suppliers. We all know that auditing is far from perfect and some even question its efficacy in evaluating the adequacy of food safety systems. According ISO 19011 - Guidelines for auditing management systems (in 2018 update) audit [...]

Auditors, Audits

The Future of Auditing and the 4 steps of Food Safety Systems

October 1, 2019

Who hasn’t felt nervous before an audit? There is so much pressure today on food safety professionals to accomplish successfully audits, especially when we have a big client requiring it or a Certification Body doing it. Most of us neglect the fact that audits should be perceived as one (more) powerful tool in the continuous [...]

Audits

Unannounced and (increasingly) unexpected audits of food safety standards

October 1, 2017

This article was first published in Quality Progress Magazine (September 2017), the flagship publication of American Society for Quality I was invited to write an article about unannounced audits by Quality Progress Magazine. Below we can find an resume from the article. Most of the controversy that has been affecting the confidence on the [...]

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5 Tips to help you thru the BIG audit day

How COVID-19 is shaping the audit world: The auditors’ opinion

Monitor Suppliers: audits or assessment?

The Future of Auditing and the 4 steps of Food Safety Systems

Unannounced and (increasingly) unexpected audits of food safety standards