Food Safety
Contaminated baby formula. Tainted tomatoes. Deadly spinach. Millions of pounds of meat recalled. More than ever, people are wondering whether our food supply is safe. Whether you're a supplier looking for solutions or a consumer seeking insight, ASQ can help.
Podcasts Offer Practical Food-Safety Guidelines
In this three-part podcast series, food-safety experts Steve Wilson and Janet Raddatz discuss the "big picture" of food safety in today's world, and offer practical advice you can use in your business.
A Recipe for Safe Food: ISO 22000 and HAACP
John G. Surak's Quality Progress magazine article details how food suppliers can use Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) as an effective tool to prevent food contamination, and how an ISO standard on food safety, ISO 22000, reinforces those efforts.
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Food Safety Auditor Certification
Based on Steven Wilson's presentation at ASQ’s annual conference in 2005, this article outlines a "hybrid" approach to certifying food-safety auditors.
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Food Safety – A Quality Management Systems Approach
This excerpt from ASQ’s Quarterly Quality Report for June 2007 (PDF, 270 KB) details recent food recalls and specifies the elements of an effective food-safety program.
Both the excerpt and the full report are Open Access.
Featured Book
The Certified HACCP Auditor Handbook
By the ASQ Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Division
An indispensable study guide for ASQ’s Certified HACCP Auditor exam, this book even includes a CD-ROM with a practice exam. But it’s also an excellent hands-on introduction to the nuts and bolts of food safety for everyone.
Featured Standard
ISO 22000:2005(E): Food safety management systems
Requirements for any organization in the food chain
You can purchase an electronic (PDF) version of the ISO standard that covers food-safety issues at all stages of the supply chain.
Discussion Boards
- ASQ’s Food Quality Discussion Board is open to the public. Here’s a place to connect with other food-quality professionals, and discuss how you can provide the highest-quality and safest food while meeting regulations and keeping costs down.
- ASQ Members also have access to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Discussion Board.
ASQ Divisions
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Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Division
ASQ’s special-interest group dedicated to issues related to these industries. Non-members have limited access to the archives and other features. -
Customer-Supplier Division
A learning community committed to "working together for excellence" for effective customer-supplier relationships. -
Product Safety & Liability Prevention Interest Group
This interest group is devoted to helping manufacturing corporations learn the key aspects of product safety and liability prevention, and to serving as a resource for your future needs.
ASQ Warns Congress: Inspections Won’t Cure All Food-Safety Ills
In August 2007 ASQ submitted written testimony to a House subcommittee investigating food-safety issues, warning committee members to “be wary of the drumbeat calling for more inspection as the way to address food safety problems, as this represents a simplistic solution to a complex situation and an expensive approach that cannot work.” Read the written statement (PDF, 62 KB).
More books and publications for people interested in food safety.
