The Food Safety Intelligence Blog
Insights, resources and best practices on digital innovations for food risk prevention
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 [...]
How to bake food safety into your supply chain
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 [...]
Surfacing fish and seafood fraud – and how to catch it early
As the world gets vaccinated, many of us have set off on our first overseas holidays in months. For a sizeable portion of us, that also means the dream of tucking into crisp shellfish shucked raw and whole fish fresh [...]
Top 5 Food Risks to expect this summer
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
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 [...]