British Retail Consortium (BRC) global standard for food safety

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British Retail Consortium (BRC) is used to satisfy the GFSI audit, which is the Global Food Safety Initiative, the main body that oversees all other audits. In this blog, we will discuss BRC and some tips to use.

Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Compliance: Proactively Mitigating Errors

When creating a HACCP program, there are a number of important components that are sometimes overlooked or aren’t fully implemented. Certification auditors will note these errors, which may prevent your business from achieving the certifications that you need. Below are some of the most common errors and how to mitigate them:

HPP – High Pressure Processing

What is HPP?

HPP has many benefits, as the logo shows by Hiperbaric. The logo was developed in 2017 to provide a standardized certificate for food safety. Customers can trust the company since the logo indicates high food safety standards, transparency of ingredients, and increasing nutrient-dense products. To also add, clean label foods, is transparency of ingredients, void of artificial ingredients, and lack of common allergens. This is a challenge that most food manufacturers face, as more and more consumers are demanding healthier ingredients. The HPP process has provided products that are clean label foods which answer consumers’ needs. For example, companies such as MUSH, Once Upon a Farm, and Evolution Fresh have been revolutionizing food processes by utilizing the HPP process. This process keeps the nutrients by using less heat, utilizes fewer preservatives, and increases food safety and shelf life.

Food science and future role in feeding the world —current and future of food safety

Food safety issue

Food safety has been a major issue these past few years as food manufacturing companies are recalling more and more products. The main recall comes from microbiological contamination, tandfonline.com mentions: “Listeria in breakfast sandwiches of Starbucks back in 2016, melamine-tainted milk powder scandal in China which harmed thousands of babies and led to many cases of death in 2008, the E.coli outbreak in bean sprouts in Germany which killed 29 people and caused approximately 3000 illness.” There were other recalls in 2018 such as the E. Coli recall of green leaf lettuce and other small recalls such as 38 cases of Salmonella in eggs.