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Thursday, 17 September 2015

12 Steps of HACCP Implementation



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



GCSE-FHP Launches Its Cost Sharing Arrangement with SSQA Flagship Operations:

With the approaching implementation of new food regulations in the US, Canada and other countries, GCSE-Food and Health Protection is prepared to take the bold steps with you that will involve some cost sharing arrangements. 

GCSE-FHP is prepared to help you with certification stress relief, gain increased customer confidence and establish productive customer relations.

We are looking for SSQA flagship operations to work with in managing the cost of developing and implementing programs that meet the evolving regulations.  The lead technical resource contact is the Food Sector Chair for GCSE-FHP (Felix Amiri).

If your company is interested in becoming a flagship operation, you may request details from the Coalition Technical Team

If you are interested in serving as the SSQA Facilitator for a flagship operation you may also request details from the Coalition Technical Team

Start now to take your company to the future:

Saturday, 12 September 2015

Step Up to Distinction

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

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KHD313B


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

Sham Invasion (Fraud Expansion in the Food Industry)



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

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KHD313B

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


Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Small Advice for Your Planned Yearly Training


Are you ramping up your yearly training? Make it useful. If you are like me, you believe in customized, effective and useful training.

The Bane of the Generic Training
You are likely opposed to training that merely presents generic information, especially information that is unrelated to real life events in the operations where the trainees are engaged. Generic training does more harm than good in some instances. At the least, it wastes valuable time and gives the false sense of satisfaction that training has been done.  Just because some outside standard says you must provide GMP training to every employee every year, you do not have to provide the same GMP training to all of your employees every year. Unfortunately, outside standard auditors may mark this as a failure during the audits. So, like well controlled robots, many operators provide the same GMP training to every employee every year. As they sign the attendance sheet that will be presented to the outside auditors as evidence of completed training, the employees wonder what the trainers think of them.

Make Training Useful
You have to first establish what the people you are going to train need to know and practice in order to avoid the most frequent undesirable incidents in your operation. This means you must first identify those undesirable incidents. On the other hand, you may want to encourage an increased commitment to what is producing desirable results in your operation but you must first identify what is producing the desirable results. Once you have established either or both of these, you can then build your training content, method of delivery, etc.

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

Thursday, 3 September 2015

Why We Obey

I listened to the CBC Ideas broadcast on “Why We Obey” and, naturally, my mind went straight to the rules that must be obeyed in my vocation. Many food businesses currently feel they have no choice but to obey the following rules:
  • You shall conduct third party audits to confirm that you are able and committed to implementing your food safety program according to one of the commercialized third party schemes.
  • You shall be certified to the selected third party auditing scheme.
  • You shall conduct re-certification audits every year.
Why do some businesses feel they must obey these rules with the usual rationalization that they cannot do business if they do not obey?

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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

Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Free Quick Guide to SFCA Required CFIA Registration-Licensing Process

The Safe Food for Canadians Act (SFCA) may seem like a distant rumble to some people at the moment. You may not even have heard or known anything about this. The regulations are currently being developed and they will be enforced at some point when the reviews and revisions have gone on for some time. For many food operations in Canada, it is no longer a matter of choice.

Every Canadian food business that imports, exports or conducts inter-provincial trade will be subject to mandatory CFIA registration/licensing. Do you know how to go about this process? If not, you should take a look at this free QUICK GUIDE courtesy of afisservices.com. It outlines 15 steps towards CFIA registration.