Evaluating suppliers of spices, casings and packaging to a meat processing plant using food safety audits data gathered during a 13-year period
2021
Jakubowska-Gawlik, Katarzyna | Kolanowski, Wojciech | Trafialek, Joanna
The aim of this study was to assess the extent to which suppliers of spices, packaging, casings and intestines to a selected meat processing plant achieved the objectives of their food safety management systems, according to the results of audits conducted in the period 2007–2019. The results provide a new perspective on non-compliance by suppliers with food safety standards. The main shortfalls discovered were: the lack of protective clothing and absence of supplier assessment in the plants of casings and intestine producers; low levels of hygiene, poor storage and foreign body management practices in the plants of suppliers of spices, packaging materials and casings. Suppliers of casings and intestines should pay close attention to the evaluation of their suppliers, plant hygiene, and protective clothing. Spice suppliers should strengthen storage, plant hygiene, foreign body and allergen management. Whereas suppliers of packaging materials mainly should pay more attention to storage and plant hygiene. Each category of suppliers showed continuously improving the levels of compliance with requirements during a surveyed 13-year period. Suppliers of spices, packaging materials, casings and intestines should achieve the expected full compliance in 2021 or 2022. The used methodology can be useful not only to monitor the extent to which the suppliers fulfilled food safety requirements, but also to educate auditors. It is important that improvements of food safety and quality management should not be limited to food producers.
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