foodsafey – Page 2 – Nuno F. Soares

In the food industry, this optimistic bias where food safety is commonly taken for granted is high risk on all levels: wherein top management and workers are complicit thereby believing nothing will happen. This mindset is sometimes erroneously supported in the idea, if it hasn’t happened before why will it happen now. 4 Challenges to [...]

FSSC 22000, HACCP, Hazard Analyis, ISO 22000

6 Common Errors in Hazard Assessment

March 23, 2023

I want to make clear that doing a Hazard Assessment is not a piece of cake. This is due to the fact that we are evaluating the likelihood of hazards in food and severity of adverse effects on humans. The Initial Oversight Conducting a Hazard Analysis is in the first principle (1st Principle of [...]

HACCP, Training

Training + Education = Competence

February 13, 2023

I think you will agree with me that one of the typical gaps are the lack of training and education on what to do and why to do it. It's not (only) about the papers All HACCPs work on paper (theoretically), the problem is that safe food is not produced by documents but by [...]

HACCP, Hygiene

Mobile Food Facilities: convenient, delicious AND SAFE

January 15, 2023

Eating food made on mobile food facility businesses must be safe but it is challenging because of the characteristics of the MFF operations’ physical profile. Trust but verify Which of us haven’t at least once in our lifetime stopped at a mobile food facility (MFF) to have something to eat? Food prepared, stored, and [...]

HACCP

I’m a consumer, do I play a role?

December 7, 2022

Consumers should recognize that they also play a vital role to assure that only safe food ends up on their family’s plates. We must assume this responsibility along with governments’ initiative to increase awareness. We are well over HACCP’s 60th year anniversary 1. Since the development and implementation of HACCP, the food industry has continuously [...]

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Food Safety “like air” mindset: stop it now!

6 Common Errors in Hazard Assessment

Training + Education = Competence

Mobile Food Facilities: convenient, delicious AND SAFE

I’m a consumer, do I play a role?