By • October 12, 2021 How to start addressing food e-commerce risks? E-commerce is a food safety concern. FDA is asking about the risks. How to start? Start simple with a basic supply chain map and then conduct criminology hot spot analysis. The steps are outlined here with links to examples. This is […]
By • October 5, 2021 If FDA is asking questions about food e-commerce, then what is your role? As a food safety manager, you have a role in cybersecurity – including e-commerce – but to do what? This post includes a recent video lecture on the topic that provides for a simple call
By • September 28, 2021 What is FDA’s role in policing food e-commerce? Will your operations be a new focus of FDA? Do these transactions occur in “the cyberspace,” “the internet,” or the “virtual world”? This post continues our review of the upcoming US FDA New Era in Smarter Food Safety public meeting
By • September 21, 2021 What is food e-commerce? What are the food e-commerce vulnerabilities? Below is an excerpt from my Food Fraud Prevention textbook that reviews e-commerce and product fraud risks. This excerpt provides insight for the upcoming US FDA New Era in Smarter Food Safety public meeting on food e-commerce. Link
By • September 14, 2021 How much is enough? How do you know? How do you judge or defend how much (or how little) you do? This new free MOOC covers the basics and also reviews how to sync your assessments with your company-wide risk tolerance. This is the recommended fifth course in
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By • September 7, 2021 (Part 1 of a multi-post series) Participate in the FDA direction on food e-commerce. This is a review of the Federal Register announcement earlier today about the FDA food safety/e-commerce public meeting on October 19, 2021. The event addresses e-commerce and new business models based on supply chain
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By • August 31, 2021 Pest control? You might ask, how is this a part of food fraud prevention? Well, GFSI explicitly identifies pest control as a requirement for procurement and purchasing. Think about it… any product or service that is in your food operations could be the source of a food safety
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By • August 24, 2021 A high-ranking government food policy leader once stated to me that their food companies didn’t “do GFSI” but did implement FSSC, SQF, IFS, BRC, or others. The leader didn’t know that GFSI is the benchmark for those food safety management systems. So, what is GFSI and its compliance
GFSI Compliance vs. a Food Safety Standard (BRC, SQF, FSSC, IFS, GRMS, and others) Read More »
