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Food manufacturers must protect the
supply chain
Source of Article: http://members.ift.org/IFT/Pubs/Newsletters/weekly/nl_021809.htm
The nation-wide Salmonella outbreak has shaken consumers’ trust
in the safety of the U.S.
food supply chain, leading many to question food manufacturers’ quality
control processes. In Food Technology’s latest ePerspective
post, Steven Wilson examines what food manufacturers can do to address food
safety issues. As Wilson
states it has always been and will continue to be the responsibility of a
firm’s management to oversee and guarantee the company’s adherence to food
safety standards. Check out what Wilson
has to say on the topic, and add your own two cents to the discussion. Should
more of the burden fall on the FDA rather than the food manufacturers? Given
the wide distribution of the tainted peanut products in the current outbreak,
is there anything that food manufacturers such as Kellogg’s should have done
differently?
Steven Wilson is the Chief Quality Officer at the U.S. Dept. of Commerce’s
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In addition he is Food
Technologist and Consumer Safety Officer for the American Society for
Quality. Wilson is a member of the Institute of Food Technologists.
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