Recently, food allergies have prevailed, awakening people’s interest. Currently, about 2-4% of adults and 6% of kids suffered a any type of food allergy. Even though we have more information than ever about food causing allergies, this matter is still a complex and difficult topic. What provokes a food allergy? The immune system protects the

The benefits of nanotechnology for the food industry are many and are expected to grow with time. This new, rapidly developing technology impacts every aspect of the food system from cultivation to food production to processing, packaging, transportation, shelf life and bioavailability of nutrients. The National Nanotechnology Initiative in the U.S. defines nanotechnology as the

Why it’s important a tracking and measuring equipment in ISO 9001:2015? ISO 9001:2015 has the requirements that we shall comply with, by controlling the equipment that we used to carry out or produce changeable products or processes. Why monitoring and measuring? Everybody knows what’s a measuring device is but not the monitoring device standard. The

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA of the FDA) a law issued by the President of the United States, Barack Obama, on January 04th, 2011. This regulated change had the aim to transform food safety. The industry shall use effective actions to prevent pollution instead of fighting it. FSMA of the FDA has preventive controls

Food Safety means the absence of health hazards. Food can be risky for consumers when it’s altered, contaminated, and altered. Altered food by intentionally causes altered in its organoleptic features (taste, color, odor, and texture) chemical composition or nutrition’s value (even if it’s safe, it shouldn’t be used). Contaminated food by accident holding microorganisms, chemical,

Currently, most of the organizations focus on the customer and quite often resources are investing in creating a Customer Service department, which guarantees the client’s satisfaction, however, a question that we must ask ourselves is: how effective is the customer service department?. ISO 9001 confers the requirements for creating a quality administration model. There are

The 65 proposals of California’s state come into force in 1985 protecting water and food. This action exposes carcinogenic substances that caused birth deformities or any other reproductive disorder. The office overseeing the reviewed and published list of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (ORHHA), requested once a year, to the state of California, an updated list

What’s a market recall? What’s the procedure suitable? In case of a recall, it’s important to have implemented two systems in our facilities. Identification and tracking system This system allows us to track and identify the raw material and packaging materials, which are in direct contact with the product at the facilities since we received

According to ISO, a nonconformance is not fulfilling a system requirement, either specified or not. A requirement is a need or established expectation, usually explicit or mandatory. First, you need to determine: what’s the contention or immediate action? The purpose of this action is to stop the nonconformance occurrence and then analyze the root causes

A common question among organizations when auditing: the difference between an operational and a program requirement?   The differences are highlighted among them, but the main one is that the operational prerequisites proceeds from hazard analysis and the pre-requirement program refer to the first protection layer creating a favorable environment when manufacturing food.   Some