Kraft speaks out on Customised Food Safety Assurance
14th April 2009 by Alex Briggs
Kraft, one of the world’s largest food brands, has spoken out on the importance of an effective, customised food safety management system. A company spokesman said,
To be effective, food safety plans must be tailored to each particular product and manufacturing condition.
He also added that Kraft was committed to continious improvement, stating
There is no one size fits all as every product has a unique need and varying degree of risk associated with it,” stated a spokesperson for the group. “Routine testing of ingredients and finished products and environmental monitoring vary greatly from plant to plant and product to product.
The comments come after Kraft Foods was this week praised by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for showing how the country’s food safety systems should work, after it discovered a salmonella outbreak in pistachios processed by one of its suppliers.
The discovery, which was uncovered during what the company called routine third party testing that it was not legally required to undertake, led central-California-based processor Setton Farms to voluntarily recall its 2008 pistachio crop due to an unrelated salmonella contamination.