food safety – Nuno F. Soares

Controlling-foreign-material-food-safety

Importance and statistics Globalization of the food industry has allowed for a more expansive food network that allows for food products from distant areas to reach different parts of the world. Food production, consumption, transportation, and the entire food chain have changed drastically over the past few decades and population growth and advances in technology [...]

GFSI

Speakers’ Takeaways from the 2019 GFSI Conference!

April 1, 2019

This month I am doing something very special for you. Following the 2019 GFSI Conference of February 25 th to 29 th which took place in Nice, France, I reached out to several of the key speakers and challenged them to share the essence of their presentations and their compelling takeaways with food safety professionals who could not attend. More than 1000 delegates from [...]

Hygiene

Disinfectants by-products: check them out!

March 1, 2019

Historical background Ever since Dr. John Snow established in 1854 that water could be a mode of transmission for deadly diseases such as cholera, water disinfection is a basic requirement in all drinking water treatment process. Chlorine, the first disinfection chemical discovered in 1774 by the chemist Karl Scheele (Centers for Disease Control and [...]

Food Defense, Food Fraud

Intentional Adulteration: 6 threats to your business

February 1, 2019

When on 9th September of 2018 Hoani Hearne bit a nice red strawberry he was not expecting to end the day in Sunshine Coast University Hospital with severe abdominal pain. He had ingested a needle intentionally planted by My Ut Trinh, a former strawberry farm supervisor! 230 incidents were reported, 186 of those included sewing [...]

Prerequisites, Water

The 6 steps to manage water quality in food industry

January 1, 2019

Water is essential for life but in many cases is also a vehicle for human illness and even death. World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that contaminated drinking water causes 502,000 diarrhoeal deaths each year and at least 2 billion people consume and use drinking water contaminated with feces. Although most prominently, it is mistaken thinking that [...]

Tags: food safety

Importance of controlling foreign matter in food production

Speakers’ Takeaways from the 2019 GFSI Conference!

Disinfectants by-products: check them out!

Intentional Adulteration: 6 threats to your business

The 6 steps to manage water quality in food industry