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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 [...]

FBOs, Top Management

10 responsibilities of Food Business Operators (FBOs)

October 1, 2021

Food Business Operators (FBOs) play the most critical role as they supply ‘Food’ to the consumers. Their primary responsibility is to ensure that Food being supplied is SAFE and NUTRITIOUS for human consumption as the food which is “not safe is not food “. Consequences from not acting diligently may not be limited to only [...]

Food Safety Culture, FSSC 22000, I'm a SLO, ISO 22000

Interview in Food Safety Matters Podcast

September 14, 2021

I joined Barbara and the Food Safety Magazine team to have a long talk around several topics. Our talk starts at 19:46. We began by the I’m a SLO movement and how it is a starting point for developing Food Safety Culture. After this, I briefly presented how to develop the I’m a SLO mindset [...]

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 [...]

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Technology and conformity assessment

10 responsibilities of Food Business Operators (FBOs)

Interview in Food Safety Matters Podcast

Audits and Auditors

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