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From Farm to Fork: The Critical Role of Food Safety for the Food Industry
by John Clemons, EnteGreat

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Paper Overview
Given the gravity of the issues involved with food safety, and the reality of governmental regulation, every company in the food industry must have a food safety program of some sort in place just to be in business. Yet the hard truth revealed by the experiences of several companies in the past few years is that ensuring food safety can be more challenging than what they have planed for. Often a source of problems is not even under the roof of the product manufacturer. Sometimes suppliers are located on another continent, and it is more difficult to know where ingredients originate, how they are processed, and if they truly meet quality standards. 

It is not sufficient to rely solely on reactive measures in response to the governmental regulations that come from the FDA and USDA. Regulatory compliance should be seen as a starting point, not as an exhaustive framework for ensuring food safety.  When the right steps are taken and the right tools are used to implement the food safety strategy, the effectiveness of the program goes up and the costs of maintaining food safety come down. The result is not only risk mitigation in terms of food safety failures, but also reductions in waste, improvements in yields, and a tighter grip on quality. It turns out that achieving higher levels of food safety also means gaining valuable improvements to production that will enhance the bottom line.

In this paper, we explore the fundamental principles that the most successful companies in this field have embraced for managing food safety, and how they can be used in every facility.

Paper Outline

• The Risks that Food Safety Failures Pose to Consumers and Companies
• The Most Pressing Food Safety Issues
• A Ten-Step Guide for Establishing and Sustaining Effective Food Safety Practices
• The Valuable Role that Systems Technology Can Play
• Using Food Safety to Improve the Bottom Line

About the Author
John Clemons, Vice President of EnteGreat, has over 23 years of experience in manufacturing, including work within the Food & Beverage, Consumer Products, Pulp & Paper, Steel, Specialty Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotechnology industries. John has spent his career working for industry-leading systems integrators and consultants, and he has done consulting work almost exclusively for Fortune 500 Companies. John's papers, industry press articles, and technical sessions have helped people throughout these industries gain a better understanding of manufacturing systems integration within the Enterprise IT environment.

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