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Excited to meet like-minded people and talk QMS solutions
Hi all, just wanted to introduce myself. I spent 20 years in food manufacturing and developed our QMS from the ground up. I have dealt with every problem that you can imagine over the years but the most challenging was developing a "system" that would outlast the individual. I…
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Harmonizing Global Standards: Strategies for Multi-Certification Efficiency
Harmonizing Global Standards: Strategies for Multi-Certification Efficiency Taking place: Friday, November 06, 2026 - 03:00 PM UK, 10.00 AM EST Presenter: Amanda Evans-Lara, Director, HACCP Mentor Webinar Overview: Discover practical approaches to efficiently managing multiple…
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Reduce Giveaway, Improve Compliance: 3 Automation Strategies for Better Fill Control
Reduce Giveaway, Improve Compliance: 3 Automation Strategies for Better Fill Control Took place: Friday, October 30, 2026 - 03:00 PM UK, 10.00 AM EST Presenter: Frank Borrmann, Market Manager for Checkweighing and Vision Inspection, METTLER TOLEDO Webinar Overview: Learn how…
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Reduce Giveaway, Improve Compliance: 3 Automation Strategies for Better Fill Control
File Name : Reduce Giveaway, Improve Compliance: 3 Automation Strategies for Better Fill Control File Submitter : Simon File Submitted : 30 Oct 2026 File Category : Food Safety Fridays Presentation Slides and Certificate of Attendance from the Food Safety Fridays webinar…
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Digital MRD & Training Records
Currently, to prove employees have been trained on new/updated SOP, policy, or subject, I require a training record to be filled out. My company is switching to a digital MRD (AG5) to document their proficiency in different aspects of their position. SOPs are referenced in the…
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SQF Unannounced Audit Window Starting January. SQF 9 or 10
Hello! I am unsure of what to do with this audit window. I am actively preparing for SQF edition 10 for January but I also am keeping edition 9 active and up to date. I am curious if I should start SQF 10 requirements in January but if I do that, I will not have any historical…
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SQFI promoting CMX1 in their SQF 10 preparedness emails
Email from SQFI titled Edition 10 is coming, let's get ready together. Then it immediately turns into a big write up about their partnership with CXM1 and how they value it and how it's awesome to get you ready for ed 10 blah blah shill shill. Is such a blatant advertisement…
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Anyone having experience cleaning and sanitizing KHS Bartlet baggers
KHS manufacturers have no protocols to share on how to clean and sanitize KHS baggers. Anyone has insights they would like to share?
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What are y'all using to clean electrical cords, bundles, wires, etc.
I've got big power cords... easy enough (though they go to the ceiling so have to bust out the scissor lift to clean the top of them) but what about wire bundles and cords? I've got some liftvrac S conveyors and they're pretty nice but the body is open metal works (great for…
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Risk Assessment for document review
Hi, there I need some ideas around how to structure a risk assessment for document review for BRCGS Food safety, reasons being that I'm the only person responsible for systems and truly saying all document will be on an annual schedule its not practical when I'm responsible for…
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SQF Edition 9 - Basic Food Hygiene Training
Hi all, We are implementing SQF Edition 9 in December (yes i do understand edition 10 starts in Jan). I bought a package for SQF not realising it was edition 10. It doesn't appear to have a training document for Basic Food Hygiene. Does anybody have a template or training…
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What Are the Best Document Control Systems for Food Safety?
Jfrey's brilliant answer to my thread on AI is making me wonder.... What is out there for doc control nowadays? I see a lot of bolt on systems that cost money and there are the cheap and cheerful, stick everything on excel and link (shudder). I just hate that because depending…
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ISO 17025 Accreditation: Practical Lessons for Testing Laboratories
Hi everyone, I've been working with testing and calibration laboratories in Abu Dhabi on ISO/IEC 17025 projects, and I see the same questions and mistakes come up again and again. Sharing a few practical points here in case it helps anyone planning accreditation, and I'd love to…
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Where is AI bringing you benefit, and where is it not?
I use Copilot quite a bit because it has enterprise protection. That means whatever I upload is at least not meant to be teaching the wider model nor at risk of going into the void for someone else to discover. But it doesn't have p- me off sometimes. Sometimes it's good,…
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SQF Edition 10: Does Pass/Fail Scoring Reduce the Incentive for Excellence?
This month we had out first unannounced audit, and while we have continued to improve upon the entire scope, scoring 89/91/95 in our last 3 years, we are now about to embark on Ed 10, and while I had the Auditor here, I decided to pick her brain about changes. So, as per her…
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Exporting Meat Products to Hong Kong: Health Certificate Requirements
Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well. Our company is planning to export dried meat products to Hong Kong, and I was wondering if anyone here has experience obtaining a Health Certificate for Foods of Animal Origin. Were your production sites audited as part of the…
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Understanding the Meaning of 'Purview' in the SQF Code
Maybe this is a silly question: what's the definition of Purview? In the SQF code, the word "purview" is used a few times. I can't seem to find it on the SQF site, and now I'm wondering if it's a spelling error. Maybe I'm overthinking it too... Example, 2.6.3.1 The methods and…
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Food Safety Burnout: How Do You Stay Motivated After 20 Years?
Man....I've been at a switch from FSSC 22k to SQF for the last year. Lots of paperwork, lots of revisiting things, etc etc. I think I'm losing my grove a bit. Been in the game a long time, and just feeling, I dunno.....deflated at the moment. Yall ever have waning interest in…
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Selecting a Pest Control Contractor: Tender Requirements and Best Practices
Hi, I hope you can help. As part of a cost-saving initiative, I have been asked to review our current pest control services and explore alternative pest control contractors. We have been using the same contractor for >10 years, and I have been happy with the service since taking…
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Mastering Food Safety Compliance
File Name : Mastering Food Safety Compliance File Submitter : Simon File Submitted : 16 Oct 2026 File Category : Food Safety Fridays Presentation Slides and Certificate of Attendance from the Food Safety Fridays webinar conducted on October 16, 2026 by Ann-Kathrin Kuehle,…