Yearly Archives: 2021

Home/2021

How to tackle your supplier risk assessment challenges

2021-12-09T17:49:12+02:00By |

Few would disagree that for food companies, the safety of their products comes first. Supplier risk is manifold. You look to safeguard your supply chain while keeping your consumers' health at heart as well. Supplier risk assessment is therefore one [...]

Using AI to boost supplier & ingredient risk assessment

2021-11-19T17:21:35+02:00By |

Let's talk about supplier and ingredient risk assessment. Food risk assessment is the process through which food safety or supplier compliance teams need to calculate a risk indicator for thousands of ingredients and hundreds of suppliers, so that they rank them in [...]

How can AI revolutionize traditional horizon scanning?

2021-11-15T17:55:04+02:00By |

There are different ways that food safety teams can stay informed about incidents and emerging risks that could be critical to their supply chain. For example, regularly checking official, trusted websites like the European RASFF portal and the US FDA [...]

How to bake food safety into your supply chain

2021-10-29T15:42:19+02:00By |

A meal just isn’t a meal without ____. If you’re like most people, odds are that you filled out the blank with a beloved carbohydrate. Carbs are the building blocks of a balanced diet, as both a source of energy [...]

Top 5 Food Risks to expect this summer

2021-09-08T12:11:05+02:00By |

Food companies want to avoid major incidents, by being more proactive and less reactive in their food risk mitigation actions. They want to increase the amount of data that they can access, to better see around the corners and invest in the right [...]

We need to talk about Lettuce

2021-06-04T17:35:17+02:00By |

Let’s talk about salads… Do people still get sick from contaminated leafy greens? Last year, the Canadian Public Health Agency officially asked consumers to avoid romaine lettuce until their investigation of some serious illness incidents was completed. During the same [...]

Could the ethylene oxide recalls have been predicted?

2021-11-12T13:30:34+02:00By |

Who doesn’t love sesame seeds? They are a popular ingredient in many cuisines and bakery products around the world thanks to their deliciously nutty, slightly sweet taste and aroma which can be enhanced by toasting. Unfortunately, sesame seed containing products [...]

The Digital Crystal Ball

2021-01-29T11:52:11+02:00By |

Chris Elliott, Professor of Food Safety at Queen's University Belfast, is sharing his thoughts on the contribution of predictive analytics to the food safety sector and academic research. We all want the ability to see into the future of course [...]

Go to Top