With the globalisation of trade, providing guarantees that your food product is safe is now an important part of business transactions. In recent years, governments and industry have been aligning their food safety requirements. While governments in the US and Canada are mandating written Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)-based preventive control plans to…
Food traceability regulations in North America are being implemented as a result of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) in the US and Safe Food for Canadians Act (SFCA) in Canada. Facing pressure to meet regulatory compliance and private food safety standards, food and beverage companies are being forced to review their food safety preparedness…
Upcoming Sensory Evaluation Course for Winemakers Starting May 29, I will be co-teaching a new sensory course at Okanagan College in Penticton. “Sensory Evaluation in Winemaking” will be held in the new food sensory laboratory of Okanagan College, Penticton campus. The 12-hour workshop will focus on the application of sensory evaluation tools for quality control…
In a previous post, I mentioned that Descriptive Analysis (DA) is one of several sensory evaluation methods which is gaining popularity in the global food and wine industry. The need to profile food and wine products reliably derives from a need to meet consumer preferences. It can also be a tool used to reach regulatory…
Rooted in product manufacturing, the field of sensory evaluation has grown rapidly in the last decades. One of the reasons for this is that both the food and beverage industries have shifted from a production-oriented business model to a market-driven one in which discerning consumers define product quality. In order to differentiate themselves in a…
The rise of food recalls and the global nature of food trades are forcing governments to modernise their food safety legislation. While the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama in January 2011, the Safe Food for Canadians Act received royal assent on November 2012. With these two key pieces…