THE IMPORTANCE OF FOOD SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY
When food safety protocols are established: • Mistakes are reduced. • Foodborne illnesses are reduced or eliminated. • Profitability increases. • Employee morale increases. • Employee turnover is lower. • The company’s reputation remains secure. If food safety is neglected, the risks of foodborne illness outbreaks increase. This can critically damage a company’s reputation, result in criminal negligence, expensive lawsuits, and cause a company to go bankrupt. In this session, food safety expert Francine L. Shaw will discuss: • The importance of establishing a food safety culture. This involves a commitment to continually operate in a safe manner, being pro-active at eliminating hazards, training employees, and establishing consistent food safety protocols. • Internal inspections. Internal food safety checklists are proactive measures to ensure food safety standards are being met. Many corporations have several forms that must be completed during any particular shift – in addition to multiple other responsibilities. Items that are devised to support and encourage food safety behaviors become burdensome tasks that frequently don’t get completed properly, if at all. • Third–party inspections. Hiring outside food safety inspectors is an expense, to be sure, but it’s a worthwhile investment. And – just ask Chipotle – taking preventative measures is far more affordable than dealing with the aftermath of a foodborne illness outbreak: paying attorney’s fees, settling lawsuits, losing customers, seeing sales decline, and watching stock prices plummet. Using technology to track trends in specific districts, regions, or areas could stop a potential problem in its tracks. • Food safety training vs food safety education. Food safety education is an ongoing effort to teach food service professionals about more than just the “basics.” It’s helping them understand why food safety is so important, the proper protocols to follow, how to prevent contamination, etc. – on an ongoing basis. Food safety must be looked at as an education program rather than part of a one-time training program where material isn’t reinforced or remembered. Each food service organization’s are different, but everyone’s goal is the same – keep guests safe.
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- 2. What Keeps You Awake at Night?
- 3. $55.5 BILLION a year industry in the United States alone.
- 14. Prevention
- 15. Creating a Food Safety Culture
- 16. When food safety is neglected the risk of foodborne illness outbreaks/recalls increase
- 17. A Few of the Largest Foodborne Illness Outbreaks of 2018 Chipotle, Ohio – Clostridium perfringens - 700+ McDonalds, USA - Cyclospora – 500+ La Luz Mexican Grill Inc., Colorado – Salmonella - 30+ Taco Bell, Oklahoma – Salmonella – 155+ Hardee’s, North Carolina – Hepatitis A – 4,000+ meals exposed Little Caesar's and Red Lobster, Arkansas – Hepatitis A - 100+ Regina Bakery,Ohio - Hepatitis A – 850+ JJ’s Beer Garden and Brewery, Arkansas – 100+ Windjammer Restaurant, Vermont – Norovirus – 114+
- 18. Romaine Lettuce, USA - E. coli O157:H7 – US and Canada 218 sick, 96 hospitalizations, 5 deaths Del Monte Vegetable Trays - cyclosporiasis, USA – 237 sick, 7 hospitalizations Jimmy John’s, USA - Sprouts – 10 sick Kratom, USA - Salmonella - 199 sick, 50 hospitalizations. Fareway/Triple T Chicken Salad, USA - Salmonella – 265 sick, 94 hospitalizations, 1 death Go Smile Coconut, USA - Salmonella – 14 sick, 3 hospitalizations. Rose Acre Shell Eggs - Salmonella – 45 sick, 11 hospitalizations. Caito Cut Melons, USA – Salmonella - 70 sick, 34 hospitalizations. Kellogg’s Honey Smacks, USA - Cyclosporiasis – 100 sick, 34 hospitalizations. Raw Turkey, USA – 90 sick, 40 hospitalizations. Venezuelan Crab Meat, USA – 12 sick, 4 hospitalization RTE Processed Meat, South Africa - Listeria – 1,000+ sick, 200+ deaths Baby Formula, France – Salmonella - 36 sick *First 6 months 2018
- 19. Pork Products - Listeria monocytogenes Romaine Lettuce – E. coli O157:H7 Raw Chicken Products – Salmonella Ground Beef – Salmonella Deli Ham – Listeria monocytogenes Ground Beef – E. coli O26 Gravel Ridge Farms Shell Eggs – Salmonella Enteritidis Chicken – Salmonella Raw Turkey Products – Salmonella Hy-vee Spring Pasta Salad – Salmonella Fresh Express Salad Mix – Cyclospora Del Monte Fresh Produce Vegetable Trays – Cyclospora Imported Fresh Crab Meat – Vibrio parahaemolyticus Kellogg’s Honey Smacks Cereal – Salmonella Pre-Cut Melon – Salmonella Shell Eggs – Salmonella Romaine Lettuce – E. coli O157:H7 Dried Coconut – Salmonella Typhimurium Chicken Salad – Salmonella Typhimurium Kratom – Salmonella Raw Sprouts – Salmonella Montevideo Frozen Shredded Coconut – Salmonella
- 20. Biggest Food Recalls of 2018 USA - https://www.mashed.com/130239/the-biggest-food-recalls-of-2018/ Ireland - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/urgent-recall-of-frozen-vegetables-from-irish- supermarkets-1.3557828 Ireland - https://www.fsai.ie/news_centre/food_alerts/Bloody_mallows.html UK - https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/986015/listeria-outbreak-update-tesco-lidl-aldi-full-list-symptoms UAE - https://www.foodbusinessafrica.com/2018/08/03/uae-recalls-frozen-vegetables-and-fruit-linked-to-listeria- outbreak/ France - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-diary-company-lactalis-recalls-12-million- baby-milk-boxes-83-countries-salmonella-scandal-a8158671.html South Africa (listeria timeline) - https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/news/south-africae28099s-deadly-listeria- outbreak-declared-over/
- 21. You Must be Proactive
- 28. So How Does Technology Play a Role in all of This?
- 29. You are only as good as your documentation
- 30. The Appeal of Technology Is Crystal Clear The manual process with clipboards, binders, spreadsheets, ink pens, and rigorous labor is: Antiquated, costly, dangerous, and, unreliable.
- 31. Internet of Things (IoT) technology can continuously monitor conditions, and send actionable alerts to key management in real time: Customer wait times, energy usage, equipment temperatures, fluid flow volumes (beverage dispensers), HVAC conditions, lighting, open/closed cooler and freezer doors, and, trace-backs.
- 32. Blockchain technology: From 7 days to 2 seconds
- 33. Blockchain technology will speed trace-back, improve food safety and reduce waste!
- 37. IoT Can be Utilized to Establish Patterns, Timelines, and Trends Could stop a potential problem in it’s tracks Internal Audits Third-Party Audit - Investment Health Department Scores and Violations Stores Districts Regions Countries
- 39. It’s not a matter of IF but WHEN a foodborne illness will occur, if you don’t do everything you can to prevent it.
Editor's Notes
- I’ve been in the food business…. when I began… Technology – fry timer. food safety wasn’t discussed, hand washing, single use gloves, specific cooking temps, holding times, food safety as we know it today didn’t exist – in fact, dumpster. And then, 1993 happened – the Jack in the Box E.coli outbreak 732 sick (most children under 10), 4 children died – nearly 200 people left with permanent disabilities incl. kidney and brain damage. This is when things began to change. ‘
- Food safety, but the investment in the technology we need is too costly to take care of the problems we know exit.
- CDC estimates 48M Americans FBI every year, 128,000 hospitalized, and 3,000 die (USA) Annual cost of medical treatment, lost productivity, and illness related deaths
- We live in a society where food is being imported from one country to another making it much easier for foodborne diseases to spread globally at unprecedented speed.
- Handwashing with soap and clean water can help prevent the spread of disease and can save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention!
- Involves a long-term commitment to establishing consistent food safety protocols. Talk the talk, walk the walk.
- The financial impact of a recall can be $100M or more, not to mention the long-term financial damage due to loss of consumer trust and lost sales.
- If you can just add images of the items that will be perfect! These three are from the past week – if any illness or deaths are associate type those numbers under the images.
- Internal checklists – quality not quantity, can become burdensome and neglected tasks, if not devised to support food safety. External Audits – can be costly but a worthwhile investment. Consider the investment (attorney fees, lost sales, settling law suits, stocks prices plummeting, losing customer confidence…) Using technology to track trends can stop potential issues before they become major problems.
- Communication is key in any organization – from the c-suite to the hourly employees. Many times key information doesn’t get communicated …. Conversation vs e-mail vs text
- Child to receive sex education or sex training?
- Is key, Individuals are more likely to perform at a higher level if they know their work is going to be reviewed – human nature.
- Just like audits 3rd party inspections can be vital to a companies success. Trained inspectors from outside sources look at things differently … spot on the wall. Unannounced vs announced.
- Judge Judy
- Increased labor, paper cost, pencil whipping, lost documentation, etc.- images
- With blockchain technology data that used to take us 7 days to collect, can now be obtained in 2 seconds!
- These platforms are industry-focused and not piecemealed together. Making the entire operation much easier to manage.
- https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/multistate-outbreaks/outbreaks-list.html https://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/?s=big+year