Food Safety Archives

Why Risk Assessment and Root Cause Analysis Must Work Together

What will you learn? In this article, I bring together the two themes from the previous articles: risk assessment and root cause analysis. You will learn: Why risk assessment and root cause analysis should not be treated as separate activities How risk assessment works as the pr...

Why Root Cause Analysis Often Fails to Fix the Problem

What will you learn? In this article, I explain why root cause analysis should be treated as a learning tool, not just a customer response or paperwork exercise. You will learn: Why issues should be understood before they become incidents or crises How to avoid confusing the pro...

Why Most Food Safety Risk Assessments Do Not Actually Reduce Risk

What will you learn? In this article, Denis Kiely explains why risk assessments often look complete on paper but still fail to reduce inherent risk. You will learn: Why hazard identification and risk assessment are not the same thing Why a risk matrix is only useful if the think...

Food Defence

“Food defence is the effort to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration or tampering” (FDA) FDA has a leading role in a number of food defence initiatives to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration or tampering and to assist facilities to prevent, pre...

Food Safety Culture – What is the purpose of and implications for (EU) 2021/382?

The newly published commission regulation (EU) 2021/382 amending regulation 852/2004 requires all food business operators to establish, maintain and provide evidence of an appropriate food safety culture. This legal requirement is a new departure as culture can be quite a subject...

Older