9fbtechreview.comMARCH 2024·Involve Your Team and Make Sure They Know Your Door Is OpenedQuality assurance is not only about having a quality team responsible for quality and compliance. It's about having short control intervals critical to quality steps of your process and open dialogue for appropriate escalation of issues - rather than relying solely on disciplinary measures for human errors. Without minimizing the importance of accountability of any employee involved in the food processing steps, having opened dialogue when issues arise allows us to identify the true root cause and put in place corrective actions long before the product is at risk, as well as preventive actions to avoid the recurrence of such issues. ·Establish, Monitor and Verify Your Process ControlsRegularly challenge the appropriateness of the controls you have established for your critical process steps. As customers and products have life cycles that change with evolving markets, your process needs to evolve equally for the appropriate and improved controls. Don't Expect Everything to Go as PlannedIf you expect that all batches will be produced without any incident, then you are set up for failures. Your critical process controls are set for the purpose of detecting defects, but in addition, you need to take the necessary actions to retain problematic batches that have unplanned deviations (re-inspect, re-work or reject) to ensure you comply with your specification and with regulatory requirements. Corrective and preventive actions that correct and prevent the recurrence of such deviations are not necessarily of value on the sole factor of cost; they are about all the value of the safety of your kids, teens, parents and grandparents - priceless! What will make the company you work for reliable and sustainable for food safety is what will make it successful in keeping its right to operate. What will make the company you work for reliable and sustainable for food safety is what will make it successful in keeping its right to operate
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