If you’re contemplating starting a business, you may want to begin operating out of your home kitchen. Maybe you have a snack mix that’s so good your friends say you should sell it. Or your jams and jellies have won prizes and now it’s time to bring them to a bigger audience at the local […]
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Scaling up your food production? Have you identified your food safety ‘what ifs’?
If food safety is the process of ensuring that our food does not harm us in the short term, then how do we figure out those potential locations of harm? Especially when scaling up, knowing the answers to your ‘what ifs’ is a critical piece of the the food safety puzzle.
Definition of Food Quality
Food quality is harder to define than food safety as it is product, consumer, manufacturer and regulator specific. This is why product specifications are so important.
Reducing Foodborne Illness: HARM part 2 Acid
Continuing my HARM series on how to reduce foodborne illness when manufacturing food.
Food Safety Coaching for Food Artisans and Entrepreneurs
Food safety coaching offered in Philadelphia in Aug. At this 6 hour clinic we will demystify the prerequisite programs required for state and federal food safety regulations that affect your business,
Three Ways Good Manufacturing Practices Help You Make A More Consistent And Safer Food Product
What are good manufacturing practices and how can you use them to help your food business?
Which Food Safety Plan Should I have?
Both HACCP and Food Safety Plans use scientific information to investigate what the hazards of your product are and how they can be controlled. But which plan do you need?
Noncompliance = Death
Noncompliance equals death seems to be turning into my tagline. Am I being over the top? Sadly not. According to the CDC, about 3000 people die from foodborne illness each year.