Food Traceability, Recall & Crisis Management

In 2011, Europe blamed the wrong food for a deadly E. coli outbreak, and it was traceability records, not a lab result, that found the real source. This Specialist course teaches you to build and run the traceability and recall system behind that kind of answer. You learn the language of traceability, withdrawal and recall; the rules that apply under Codex, ISO 22000, BRCGS, FSSC 22000, the EU and US, and in the UAE, the GCC and India; how to map tracking events, design lot codes and keep the trail through mixing, rework and bulk storage; how to run a timed traceability test with a mass balance and a mock recall drill; how to lead a recall from the first alert to closure; and how to communicate in a crisis. Real outbreaks and recalls show what goes wrong, and you finish with a toolkit of eight templates you can adapt for your own site.

Traceability tests, mock recalls and recall procedures are checked at every BRCGS, FSSC 22000, IFS and SQF audit, and regulators in the UAE, the GCC, India, the EU and the US expect food businesses to trace and remove unsafe food fast. QA and food safety staff who can run these systems are needed by manufacturers, caterers, importers, distributors and retailers, and the skills carry straight into supplier audits and incident response.