The Food Safety Intelligence Blog
Insights, resources and best practices on digital innovations for food risk prevention
AI in Food Safety: exploring the promise & understanding the pitfalls
In the realm of food safety, the landscape seems to be ever-evolving. I do hear the persistent concerns regarding the efficacy of traditional methods in risk mitigation and compliance assurance. From the challenges faced by FS/QA teams to the need [...]
Agroknow 2023: A year of fun in review
Passion is energy*, from focusing on what really excites you. And this is something drives people together towards a common goal. That is the reason behind all Agroknow’s actions over the year. To drive passion into the hearts of its [...]
STELAR Enters New Phase: Piloting Activities Kick Off for Project Building a Novel Data Management System
STELAR, the 3-year Horizon Europe project developing a data management system fit for today’s agrifood needs, is entering a new and exciting stage of the project lifetime cycle. After a first year filled with fruitful collaboration and efforts from the [...]
Case study: The salmonella outbreak in chocolate products explained
Food recalls are the most critical situation that could befall you as a food safety professional. Among the many consequences of recalls, I could highlight putting people’s health in jeopardy, lowering consumer trust in the food industry, and making the [...]
Preventing emerging food risks with the power of AI
Working in food safety for a major food manufacturing company means that you have to deal with unexpected supply chain risks often. About a month ago, at the 2022 GFSI Conference in Barcelona, I heard so many times that identifying [...]
How to tackle your supplier risk assessment challenges
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 [...]
Blowing the whistle on buttered-up fat and oil food fraud
Fat is flavor, or so the adage in food circles goes. If you want to achieve big taste and get mouths salivating, there is no easier ingredient to incorporate than fat or oil. From a simple smear of salted butter [...]
Using AI to boost supplier & ingredient risk assessment
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?
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 [...]