GCSE-Food & Health Protection : July 2014

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Food Safety and Acrobatic Balancing Acts – Where do you stand?

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

Posted By Felix Amiri

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

Saturday, 26 July 2014

The Lion, the Goat and the Yam Test for Prospective Food Safety Managers

You very likely have heard this old Nigerian riddle but not as a food protection aptitude test. All good food safety managers should be able to solve this riddle. Your yam and goat, are they safe? With some modification, clarification and added challenge to appease critical minds, here is the riddle:

A man has to cross a river with his lion, goat and tuber of yam in a canoe. The canoe needs to take at least two of the passengers for balance each time but cannot hold more than three (the yam has sufficient weight as a passenger - huge yam). The lion has no interest in the man or the yam as food but finds the goat to be irresistibly appetizing. The only reason the goat is spared is because the man gets between and separates them every time the lion goes for the goat. The goat sees the yam and feels the same irresistible urge to consume it. The man and the lion are of no interest to the goat. The man also protects the yam from the goat. However, with him having to do the paddling, the protection intervention is not possible in the canoe. How should the man get his yam, goat and lion safely across with no consumption casualties?

Note: Like certain situations in food safety and quality management, there is no opportunity for "corrective action".The challenge demands SSQA kind of strategic and preventive action.

Posted by Felix Amiri

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

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Assurance of Food Safety, Quality and Business Survival

Is your business fit and ready for the inevitable change?

The SSQA concept may be well ahead of its time but things are already happening in the industry that will force the adoption of what it proposes. - The Coming Shift

Many advocates, perhaps unknowingly, are calling for changes that align with SSQA proposals and the calls are growing louder as unfortunate events continue to occur around the world. Many businesses may not know anything about SSQA today and they may not care to know but they will not survive without doing what it proposes. What is your business missing? - Scope of the SSQA Manual