Changes to Costco Food Safety Audit Expectations
All Costco Food Safety Audits are moving to unannounced except:Â Small supplier…
4 Reasons to Choose a Food Safety Consulting Company That Hires Full-Time Employees vs. Contractors
On one hand, there are consulting companies like Kellerman Consulting that only…
Mastering CAPA for QA Managers Webinar
It’s important that you are able to identify control and it is…
Episode 6: Preventive Maintenance and Repair in Quality and Safety Certification Programs
ISO 9001 quality management requirements and GFSI programs operate on many similar…
Episode 5: Worker Safety and Chemical Control
When determining if maintenance and repair activities meet regulatory standards in a…
How to Choose the Right GFSI Certification Scheme for Your Business
What is the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)? The Global Food Safety…
Do you Need a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) Benchmarked Certification to Sell Your Product?
If you are a food manufacturer, food storage and distribution company, food…
Episode 4: Ongoing Repair
The first type of repairs, those stemming from normal wear of the…
Episode 3: Ongoing Preventive Maintenance
The challenges with preventive maintenance mainly have to do with when those…
Episode 2: Maintenance and Repair for New Equipment
Integrating new equipment into a quality and safety management system involves several…
Episode 1: Introduction to Preventive Maintenance
Throughout these episodes, we emphasize where maintenance can be part of continuous…
Episode 5: Allergen Programs in GFSI
Allergen controls are mandatory or fundamental requirements for each of the GFSI…
Episode 4: Allergens in HACCP Plans and Preventive Controls Food Safety Plans
As we look at programs requiring Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points…
Episode 3: Monitoring Allergens in Operation
In our last episode we discussed locating and labeling allergens in the…
3 Key Updates for BRCGS Issue 9
Behaviors in Quality Culture BRCGS has placed an emphasis on measuring behaviors…
Episode 2: How Allergens Are Controlled in Food Facilities
When a facility is performing these tasks consistently and effectively, allergen management…
Episode 6: Internal Auditing in Quality and Safety Certification Programs
Internal auditing is a mandatory or fundamental requirement for each of the…
Episode #5: Software Solutions for Internal Audits
That means for organizations conducting ISO audit against 9001 or other ISO…
Episode 1: Allergen Risk in Food Facilities
Once we look at the varying risks allergens pose, we will explore…
Episode 4: Corrective Action and Preventive Actions for Audits
In this episode we are going to look at how to properly…
Episode 3: Performing the Audit
Get those flashlights and notepads ready! In order to understand how to…
​​Episode 2: Setting Up an Internal Audit
Planning and preparation must occur prior to any internal audit in order…
Episode 9: Environmental Monitoring in GFSI Programs
Each of the major GFSI programs, SQF, BRC, FSSC 22000 and PrimusGFS…
Episode 1: What an Internal Audit Is and Why You Should Perform Them
As part of this series we are going to examine what an…
Episode 8: Quality Issues In EMP programs
Since indicator organisms such as Aerobic bacteria and coliforms are allowable in…
Episode 7: How to Handle the Discovery of Pathogens in the Facility
Included in our discussion of a response to these positive results are…
Episode 6: Environmental Swabbing in Meat and Poultry Facilities (FSIS)
In an FSIS regulated facility, and specifically those that process ready-to-eat products…
Episode 5: Complex Swabbing Patterns
An effective environmental monitoring program should have a strategic and at least…
Episode 4: Swabbing Drains in Environmental Monitoring
For operations with drains, and that should be most food and food…
Episode 3: Conducting Environmental Monitoring
Environmental monitoring is intended to mainly monitor non-food contact surfaces near food…
Episode 2: Deciding How often to Perform Environmental Monitoring
The most important issue in determining the frequency of swabbing in a…
Episode 1: An Introduction to Environmental Monitoring Programs
Let’s begin with the basics of implementing and operating an environmental monitoring…
Episode 5: Risk Assessments in GFSI Programs
Facilities preparing for a certification or recertification audit, review of existing risk…
Episode 4: Risk Assessments as part of the food safety program
As a part of this review, we will be looking at how…
Episode 3: Leadership in Risk Assessment
We will be building on the concepts of how to write a…
Episode 2: Risk Assessments in the Food Facility
First let’s take a look at the parts of operations we want…
Episode 1: Foundations of Risk
We will also address where risk assessments may be useful for business…
Episode #7: Supplier Approval in GFSI
There are many software solutions that make organization much simpler and aid…
Episode #6: Software Solutions in Supplier Assessment Programs
There are many software solutions that make organization much simpler and aid…
Episode #5: Documentation Assessments and Supplier Reassessments
The type of finished product produced at your facility, as well as…
Episode #4: Foreign Supplier Verification Programs for Importers
FSVP is fairly straightforward, but the difficulty with it often stems from…
Episode #3: Regulatory Requirements for Supplier Approval Programs
Regardless of what type of facility we are discussing, the supplier assessments…
Episode #2: Understanding the Types of Suppliers
Each step in the supply chain presents a chance to create a…
Episode 1: Foundations of Supplier Approval
We address who should be leading assessment and approval activities, and how…
Episode 6: Culture of Food Safety in GFSI
SQF is the newest GFSI program to adopt the Culture of Food…
Episode 5: The Walk-Through
What you will get out of this video is a how-to for…
Episode 4: Transforming Your Meetings
Site leadership should be involved in all Culture of Food Safety meetings….
Episode 3: Key Metrics
A key metric or performance indicator is something we measure within operations…
Episode 2: Structure and Delegation
This video describes how to properly set up organizational structure, and emphasizes…
Episode 1: Accountability & Core Values
We will discuss how it’s important to watch out for a sense…
Key Changes in SQF Edition 9
Here are the key changes you will need to make to your…
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