Pet Food Hazards and Risk You were probably looking for a follow-up blog on last week’s Pet Food Recall Hazards. My boys, Darth (cat) and Barron (dog), are pretty interested in the identification of hazards and the preventive controls for their food. Barron has a...
Pet Food Recall Hazards You saw on my blog last week that I had a “Yikes!” when I mentioned Pet Food. With just an “eyeball” test on recalls with Google, it does not appear that the recall incident rate for Pet Food is higher than...
Home Food Safety Risk Just thinking about “Breakfast in America’ this morning. What is your favorite breakfast snack? You may just love a hot breakfast sandwich. What could the risk be with a breakfast sandwich? The sandwich could have an egg, ham, cheese, salt,...
Supply Chain Risk You got your cup of coffee. You are reading your emails and alerts this morning. You see that the FDA has issued warning letters to a number of companies. These alerts were for violations in their HACCP plans. Huh, the companies...
Traceability and Recalls Just having some thoughts about recalls and traceability this morning. What if you are a distributor selling a variety of frozen soups. You see that there is a pathogen recall on Green Beans from supplier XYZ. You do not sell Green...
Non-Compliance Traceability What are the most difficult aspects of non-compliant product management? Could you have issues with product identification and traceability? Could you have issues with the linkage of evidence to the noncompliance? You document the noncompliance with the product either in a standard template...