Webinar On "Using Your Food Safety Data to Drive Cost Reductions and Process Improvements"

In today’s world of food safety, everyone in the supply chain is challenged to document what they are doing. This seemingly expensive documentation yields data that is valuable to cutting costs, improving food safety, meeting legal requirements and improving business processes.

But most companies do not yet know how to use the data they spend so much time and money collecting. Yet, there are some relatively easy, quick to implement analytic approaches farms, processors, supply chains, distributors and packers can implement to help them manage more efficiently.

The FDA requires validation of your company preventive control plan. This means that your company and your suppliers must prove that you can control hazards or are working to control hazards. Most companies look at this requirement as an expensive, manpower consuming exercise in futility.

• How to collect reliable data rather than just “document”
• Perform simple calculations
• Quickly calculate basic process averages and ranges
• Interpret Trends
• Turn data into analytic decision making

• Any employees working on developing, implementing or auditing food safety plans
• Mid-level personnel from supply chain registered food operations
• Food safety team members
• Food quality personnel
• Managers and supervisors in food operations
• Personnel working on preventive control plans or teams

Dr. John Ryan is a certified Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PQCI) specializing in food safety process control and food safety plan validation. He holds a Ph.D. in research and statistical methods and has extensive international manufacturing quality and operations experience in large and small manufacturing operations. He is a retired Hawaii State Department of Agriculture Quality Assurance Division administrator.