Quality and Food Safety

Food quality and safety concept

Recent and new studies and research in the field of food science indicate that food safety is a basic factor in avoiding many diseases that contribute to strengthening and building a healthy body and a healthy mind. On the other hand, the United Nations organizations represented by food and nutrition and the World Health Organization around the world indicate the importance of food safety, and there are many concepts that express the quality characteristic in the field of food manufacturing and food analysis.

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What is quality?

Quality is defined as the sum of the characteristics and qualities that distinguish the individual units of a compound and have a significant impact on determining the degree of acceptance by consumers. Definitions of quality in food products are scattered, but for the descriptive evaluation of food, they include a number of measures available through some devices and sensory properties. The basic measure for evaluating the production cycle of food products is production and its quantity. For the factory, the measure is based on the characteristics. For traders, the measure is the shelf life of the product. For the consumer, the measure is its flavor properties, nutritional value, and food safety.

Achieving the following goals:

  1. Clarifying its ability to provide its products in a manner that fulfills customer requirements and applicable legislation.
  2. Improving customer satisfaction through effective application of quality management systems from ISO 9001:2008 and other requirements, including processes for continuous improvement of the system and confirmation of conformity with customer requirements and applicable legislation.
  3. The company adopts the approach of management by operations when establishing, implementing, and improving the effectiveness of its quality management system to improve customer satisfaction and achieve their requirements.
  4. Establishing a tracking system for the company’s products, from the beginning of entering the inputs until the customer receives the product.
  5. Achieving compatibility between the company’s policy, procedures, and requirements.
  6. Describing and implementing an effective product safety and security system to meet the requirements of ISO 9001:2008.
  7. Continuous improvement of applications and means of safety and security of the product.
  8. Providing documents to review the company’s system in accordance with the quality requirements of ISO 9001:2008.

Quality System

Identify the organizational structure, responsibilities, processes, and resources for implementing quality management.

Quality control

Quality control which includes operational techniques, devices and activities developed to meet quality requirements.

Quality assurance

Plans and procedures are automatically required to provide sufficient confidence in the product or service as required by the quality system.

Quality Assurance Program Features

  1. Saving sufficient time and analysis costs in the long term increases the confidence of the person performing the analysis.
  2. Ensuring that errors are resolved, identified and eliminated provides a reference for errors and complaints, which leads to continuous internal improvement.
  3. Determining the training required to work in the analysis.
  4. Increase credibility and confidence in the work.

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