{"id":6895,"date":"2019-04-29T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.specpage.com\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2019-09-16T11:49:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T09:49:57","slug":"food-quality-versus-food-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specpage.com\/food-quality-versus-food-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Food quality versus food safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finding the essential balance <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Defining food safety and food quality<\/strong> is nearly impossible.\u00a0 From consumers, to regulatory agencies, to food manufacturers \u2013 the answer depends on who – and what – you ask.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, food safety is sometimes defined as anything present in food that could possibly be harmful to consumers, like biological, chemical or physical objects.<\/p>\n

End-user preparation is a challenge; many consumers create a hazardous environment while thawing or cooking their food.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not always about end-use prep – food safety also includes contamination and cross-contamination issues, like accidental allergen spills that impact people who have severe or life-threatening allergies, and even the mislabeling of products as organic \u2013 all of these challenges fall into the food safety-food quality basket.<\/p>\n

Formula-based food manufacturers understand that it is very easy for recipes to become corrupted by other substances \u2013 foods or foreign bodies – during the production, packaging, and transportation processes.\u00a0 Since 2012, consumers have expressed growing concerns regarding food safety.\u00a0 In fact, more than 68 percent say that a brand\u2019s reputation for providing adequate food safety precautions is one of their top two motivators for the purchase choices they make.<\/p>\n

Organics from a global perspective<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to reports, five percent of U.S. total food sales is organic \u2013 and more than 30 percent of households say that they purchase only organic products.\u00a0 The growth projections are enormous – organic food are conservatively predicted to increase 20 percent by 2020.<\/p>\n

Of particular concern \u2013 the rise in sales and consumption of organic foods has created a gap in compliance.\u00a0 There is no specific global regulatory body that claims responsibility for import controls or specific organic designation for these products.<\/p>\n

Food Law Latest<\/a>, an exceptionally reliable independent advice and training organization that specializes in global food law, the labeling of food products, risks for food safety and legalities surrounding the advertising of food products, recently reported that in Belgium, the enforcement of compliance with regulatory standards is quite \u201cweak, in particular in cases of severe and recurrent irregularities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cesare Varallo, food law expert and author of the study, found that theses irregularities are neither reported nor fully investigated, which \u201creduces the effectiveness of the entire control system,\u201d to accurately define and label organic products.<\/p>\n

In addition to the question of safety, Varallo cites food fraud as a major concern; he said that \u201cweak import controls, the hybrid nature of control bodies and weak supervision area gateways for fraudulent activities and noncompliance.\u201d\u00a0 Although he added that these \u201ccommercial frauds\u201d are not likely to create risks from a public health perspective, new technologies, like blockchain and comprehensive product lifecycle management that reinforces traceability should be applied to secure transactions throughout the supply chain.<\/p>\n

Hazards<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Reports conducted jointly between the World Health Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations provided recommendations to review and establish acceptable levels of risk for foods, to ensure a global, common understanding of food quality versus food safety hazards.<\/p>\n

The organization found that the main challenge is cross-contamination consumption, as determined by samplings of formula-based prepared foods.<\/p>\n

Many elements of research focus on what consumers can do to protect themselves \u2013 food prep is one of the major concerns – but beyond comprehensive labeling with specific preparation instructions to educate consumers on how their behavior and activities contribute to food safety and ways that they can decrease risks of foodborne illnesses, there is little that food manufacturers can do to impact hazards of this nature.<\/p>\n

Safety or Quality? We can have both<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The implementation of a comprehensive, end-to-end PLM process solution delivers peace of mind for food producers who seek to ensure product quality, regulatory compliance, transparency and traceability for workflows – from research and development to pantry shelf.<\/p>\n

R&D teams must manage, monitor and maintain massive amounts of proprietary data.\u00a0 PLM allows all data \u2013 from research to trials and simulations \u2013 to be stored in a specific repository, creating a single source of truth that is available on demand to authorized shareholders.<\/p>\n

Quality management teams can track raw materials, semi-finished or finished products from any point in the formula-based food development cycle.\u00a0 This is crucial in case of cross contamination or product recall \u2013 and imperative for food safety and food quality control.<\/p>\n

Innovative PLM process solutions, like SpecPDM, deliver opportunities for new product development that simply are not possible without a secure, transparent data management system.\u00a0 Efficiency and the elimination of errors in product data management provides essential leverage \u2013 the kind of leverage that determines product quality, return on investment, global regulatory compliance and bottom-line net profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finding the essential balance<\/p>\n

Defining food safety and food quality is nearly impossible.\u00a0 From consumers, to regulatory agencies, to food manufacturers \u2013 the answer depends on who – and what – you ask.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example, food safety is sometimes defined as anything present in food that could possibly be harmful to consumers, like biological, chemical or physical objects.<\/p>\n

End-user preparation is a challenge; many consumers create a hazardous environment while thawing or cooking their food.\u00a0 But it\u2019s not always about end-use prep – food safety also includes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":""},"categories":[76,4,9,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nFood quality versus food safety \u2013\u00a0SpecPage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Defining food safety and food quality is nearly impossible.\u00a0From consumers, to regulatory agencies, to food manufacturers - the answer depends on who you ask.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specpage.com\/food-quality-versus-food-safety\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Food quality versus food safety \u2013\u00a0SpecPage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Defining food safety and food quality is nearly impossible.\u00a0From consumers, to regulatory agencies, to food manufacturers - 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