“Farm to Fork” - An Expanded View

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Posted By Felix Amiri

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Felix Amiri is the current Food Sector Chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection

Health of Nations

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Posted by Felix Amiri

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Felix Amiri is currently the chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection, and a sworn SSQA advocate.

Disturbing Arguments

Here are examples of some baffling arguments:

"We demonstrated sufficient due diligence by being food safety certified."


“We follow a HACCP program and this hazard was not mentioned in our hazard identification process. Therefore, we did not see any need to implement measures to control it, or verify and validate effectiveness of its control”.

“We are a raw processing operation, and we figured that we should not test product or product contact surfaces to assess the presence of such pathogens as Listeria m., E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, etc. that are typically associated with the raw food because a positive result will trigger demands from the regulatory body for us to complete a series of time-consuming and costly corrective actions along with the associated verification and validation requirements”.

"The regulations did not specifically mention this risk. Hence we did not see any need to consider it in our implemented controls"  

What do you do with these kinds of arguments if you cannot simply ignore them?

Product Safety and the Futility of CYB

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Posted by By Felix Amiri

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Felix Amiri is currently the chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection. He is also the Director of Technical Services at Amiri Food Industry Support Services (AFISS) and the Canada/U.S representative for the World Food Safety Organisation.

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The New Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

This blog post has been moved to the author's eBook.

Posted by Felix Amiri

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Felix Amiri is currently the chair of GCSE-Food & Health Protection, and a sworn SSQA advocate. 

Product Safety - The Myth of Standardized Third-Party Assessment Programs

This blog post has been moved to the author's eBook.

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Felix Amiri is currently the chair of GCSE-Food & HealthProtection. He is also the Director of Technical Services at Amiri Food Industry Support Services (AFISS) and the Canada/U.S representative for the World Food Safety Organisation.

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Invitation and Challenge from GCSE-Food & Health Protection

The GCSE-FHP campaign started in August 2011. It is anticipated it will continue to have positive impact in coming years. You may not be a member yet but you are very much a part of this aspiration.

View countries represented by GCSE-FHP members  

GCSE-FHP is calling on all stakeholders to take decisive and properly directed action. It is also providing opportunities for real and collaborative action worldwide. Everyone who is serious about protecting consumers of food and health products everywhere is invited to join the action. This is essentially self-protection for each of us irrespective of our present vocation. We are all affected by food and health products whether these are safe or harmful.

It may surprise you to know how little effort is required from you and how non-disruptive to your current engagements it will be for you to be involved in this campaign. We strongly believe that you can play a significant role. For example, you will have contributed immensely to the campaign by simply checking the web site for updates and following the progress in order to keep current with what is happening. This will help you to better introduce the campaign to others within your circle of friends, professional colleagues and acquaintances. The Membership Manual provides additional details about the campaign. The different programs that are introduced from time to time provide the action front. Some of the key programs include:

-       The CFHPE Training Program

-       The Safe, Secure Quality Assurance (SSQA) program

-       The Real Test Action Program (Real-TAP)

-       The Employment Benefit Pact Program (EBP-Program)

-       Et cetera

You can help with the promotion of this campaign by telling your friends, providing postings for inclusion in the blog and similar engagements. This will greatly contribute to expanding the impact of the coalition.

If you are already a member, we look forward to your continuing participation. If you are not already a member, we look forward to your joining us: Membership is free.

Some of the topics posted to the  GCSE-FHP Blog may be of interest to you.

All the best!
GCSE-Food & Health Protection