Food quality control in the food industry is the process of monitoring and verifying food product quality throughout the supply chain1. The ultimate goal is to verify that products meet stringent criteria for safety, taste, appearance, and other factors1. Key procedures in food quality control include2: Product & Recipe Formulation

1. Quality and Quality Management
Chapter two
Lecture 3

2. Learning objectives.
 Quality- Definition,
 Historical Perspective,
 Quality in different areas of society,
 Basic tools of Quality,
 Quality Management- Importance, Principle, Processes, Requirements,
Implementation & Certification of a QMS.

3. Introduction
 1.1 Quality
The Oxford American Dictionary defines quality as “a degree or level of
excellence.” According to Garvin - Quality is an unusually slippery concept, easy
to visualize and yet exasperatingly difficult to define.
 The word ‘quality’ Quality conveys a positive connotation to whatever it is
applied The standard of something as measured against otherthings of a similar
kind; the degree of excellence of something.

4. Concept of quality – historical background
• Previously goods had been made from start to finish by the same
person or team of people, with handcrafting and tweaking
(alteration) the product to meet 'quality criteria'.
• Quality, as a profession and the managerial process associated with
the quality function, was introduced during the second half of the
20th century and has evolved since then. Over this period, few other
disciplines have seen as many changes as the quality profession.

5. Quality Control (QC)
• Quality control (QC) is implemented as a means of fulfilling quality
requirements, reviewing all factors involved in production.
• The business confirms that the good or service produced meets
organizational goals, often using tools such as operational auditing
and inspection. QC is focused on process output.

6. • Procedures used in each assay to assure a test run are valid and results are
reliable.
• A system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in an individual
test or process.
• A generic term that refers to the monitoring and assessment of laboratory
testing processes to identify problems and maintain performance.
• The operational techniques and activities used to fulfil requirements for quality
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7. Quality Assurance (QA)
• Quality assurance is implemented as a means of providing enough
confidence that business requirements and goals (as outlined in
quality planning) for a product and/or service will be fulfilled.
• This error prevention is done through systematic measurement,
comparison with a standard, and monitoring of processes.

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• A part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality
requirements will be fulfilled.
• A formal and systematic exercise in identifying problems in medical care
delivery, designing activities to overcome the problems, and carrying out
follow-up monitoring to ensure that no new problems have been
introduced and that corrective steps have been
effective.

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• A broad spectrum of evaluation activities aimed at ensuring
compliance with minimum quality standards.
• All actions taken to establish, protect, and improve the quality of
health care.

10. Quality Improvement (QI)
• Quality improvement is implemented as a means of providing
mechanisms for the evaluation and improvement of processes, etc. in
the light of their efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility.
• This may be done with noticeably significant changes or incrementally
via continual improvement.
• A formal approach to the analysis of performance and systematic
efforts to improve it.

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• Systematic and continuous actions that lead to measurable
improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted
patient groups.
• Defining standards of care, reassessing those standards periodically,
and continuously improving the medical systems that support those
standards.

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• It has three basic elements: customer knowledge, a focus on
processes of health care delivery, and statistical approaches that aim
to reduce variations in those processes.

13. Quality Management (QM)
• Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is
consistent (reliable). It has four main components: quality planning,
quality assurance, quality control and quality improvement.
• Quality management is focused not only on product and service quality,
but also on the means to achieve it.
• Quality management, therefore, uses quality assurance and control of
processes as well as products to achieve more consistent quality.

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• What a customer wants and is willing to pay for it
determines quality. It is written or unwritten commitment to a known
or unknown consumer in the market. Thus, quality can be defined as
fitness for intended use or, in other words, how well the product
performs its intended function.

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• The application of a quality management system in managing a process to
achieve maximum customer satisfaction at the lowest overall cost to the
organization while continuing to improve the process.
• Management activities and functions involved in determination of quality
policy and its implementation through means such as quality planning and
quality assurance (including quality control).

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• Quality management is the act of overseeing all activities and tasks
needed to maintain a desired level of excellence. This includes the
determination of a quality policy, creating and implementing quality
planning and assurance, and quality control and quality improvement.

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• All activities of the overall management function that determine
quality policy objectives and responsibilities; and implement them by
means such as quality planning, quality processes, quality control,
quality assessment, and quality improvement within the quality
system.

18. Quality Management System (QMS)
• Management system to direct and control an organization with regard to
quality.
• A formalized system that documents the structure, responsibilities and
procedures required to achieve effective quality management.
• A QMS helps coordinate and direct an organization’s activities to meet
customer and regulatory requirements and improve its effectiveness and
efficiency on a continuous basis.

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• Besides QA, the laboratory quality management system also includes
management of equipment, supplies and inventories, management of
capital, finances and budgeting, and providing training and
continuous support of staff and customer service.
• The organizational structure, resources, processes, and procedures
needed to implement quality management.

20. Total Quality Management (TQM)
• A management approach to long-term success through customer satisfaction. A
management philosophy that seeks to integrate all organizational functions (finance,
production, customer service, etc.) to focus on meeting customer needs and
organizational objectives.
• A business philosophy that the long-term success of a company comes from customer
satisfaction. TQM requires that all stakeholders in a business work together to improve
processes, products, services and the culture of the company itself.

21. Quality planning
• Quality planning is implemented as a means of "developing the
products, systems, and processes needed to meet or exceed
customer expectations." This includes defining who the customers
are, determining their needs, and developing the tools (systems,
processes, etc.) needed to meet those needs.

23. Food quality
• Food quality is the quality characteristics of food that is acceptable to
consumers. This includes external factors as appearance, texture, and
flavour; factors such as federal grade standards and internal.

24. • Food quality is an important food manufacturing requirement, because
food consumers are susceptible to any form of contamination
that may occur during the manufacturing process.
• Many consumers also rely on manufacturing and processing standards,
particularly to know what ingredients are present, due to dietary,
nutritional requirements, or medical conditions. Besides ingredient quality,
there are also sanitation requirements.
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25. • It is important to ensure that the food processing environment is as
clean as possible in order to produce the safest possible food for the
consumer. As the matter of fact is that it depends on individual as
their quality standards may vary from person to person.
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26. • Food quality is the quality characteristics of food that is acceptable to
consumers. This includes external factors as appearance (size, shape,
colour, gloss, and consistency), texture, and flavour; factors such as
federal grade standards (e.g. of eggs) and internal (chemical, physical,
microbial). Food quality in the United States is enforced by the Food
Safety Act 1990.
1.3 Quality & Quality Management

27. • Members of the public complain to trading standards professionals,
who submit complaint samples and also samples used
• to routinely monitor the food marketplace to public analysts. Public
analysts carry out scientific analysis on the samples to determine
whether the quality is of sufficient standard.
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28. • Food quality is an important food manufacturing requirement,
because food consumers are susceptible to any form of
contamination that may occur during the manufacturing process.
Many consumers also rely on manufacturing and processing
standards, particularly to know what ingredients are present, due to
dietary, nutritional requirements (kosher, halal, vegetarian), or
medical conditions (e.g., diabetes, or allergies).
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29. • Raw Material Control
• Raw materials are the basic ingredients used to create food products.
These could be fruit and vegetables that are farmed and harvested; cows,
chickens, pigs and sheep that are farmed for their meat, eggs and dairy
products and various other items. Naturally, raw material control is directly
related to process control as raw ingredients will need to meet certain
guidelines before reaching processing phases.
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30. • Process Control
• This principle relates to the process of food manufacturing. Ultimately,
preventative measures are used alongside corrective measures –
preventative strategies can only resolve a certain number of quality issues
due to outside factors such as environment, storage and other such
conditions. Many manufacturers work according to the Hazard Analysis
Critical Control Point (HACCP) system as a result of this unpredictability.
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31. • Finished Product Inspection
• The third principle focuses on the final product – the packaged food that is then
sold to consumers and suppliers. There are many forms of testing done at
different stages – visual observation, physical tests and chemical tests are just
some examples. Microbiological testing is very effective for determining health
and sanitation controls, with a stringent monitoring process that incorporates
records, data collection and the analysis of trends. External inspectors are also
used alongside internal testers.
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32. • Quality management plays a vital role within the food industry, across
many different stages of sourcing, processing and packaging. In
addition to basic laws and regulations on nutritive value,
• quality levels also incorporate factors such as shelf-life, raw materials,
taste, texture, use of preservatives and many other indicators too.
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33. • In terms of quality control and management however, the
term is used universally to ensure that all food products are processed according
to strict guidelines.
• Businesses may choose to obtain external recognition or accreditation of their FS
& QMS for a number of reasons.
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34. Importance of Quality Control
• Quality control keeps tabs on the production of inferior products and wastages
thereby bringing down the cost of production significantly.
• Better goodwill
• Facilitates Pricing
• Increase sales
• Improved techniques of production
• Higher employee morale
Importance of Quality Control