Jennifer Kinion

Former Content Manager at SafetyChain Software

SafetyChain is a digital plant management platform trusted by more than 2,500 food and beverage manufacturing facilities to improve plant-wide performance. It unifies production and quality teams with data and insights, tools, and delivers real-time operational visibility and control by eliminating paper and point solutions.

Food & BeverageCompliance

How Do Food & Beverage Leaders Approach FSQA Compliance?

Jennifer Kinion

Food safety and quality assurance (FSQA) compliance is a priority for every food and beverage company, but it’s no secret that some companies outperform others.

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Data & AutomationSafety

3 Ways Food Safety Program Software Enhances Visibility

Jennifer Kinion

Visibility is a critical element in any food safety program. Traditionally, root cause analysis has been tedious for food and beverage companies. Food safety program software enhances visibility, making it easier for food safety teams to pinpoint any issue’s origin point to minimize impact.

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Data & AutomationQuality

Tips for Calculating ROI for Food Quality Management Software

Jennifer Kinion

For companies exploring food quality management software, the best way to make a strong business case for this type of solution is to calculate the hard dollar savings it could yield.

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Data & AutomationQuality

4 Critical Components of a Food QMS

Jennifer Kinion

An effective food quality management system (QMS) can help food and beverage companies ensure a safe, high-quality end product and maintain compliance. To achieve these objectives, there are a few critical components every food QMS should encompass.

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Food & Beverage

5 Questions to Ask if You’re Considering Food Safety Software

Jennifer Kinion

As with any investment, organizations will want to carefully examine all of the potential benefits before making the decision to implement food safety software.

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Data & AutomationQuality

How Does Food Quality Management Software Allow You to Go Paperless & Save Money?

Jennifer Kinion

Food quality management software gives food and beverage companies the power to collect, track, and store data surrounding their food safety and quality operations. Not only does using a software solution allow your company to go paperless, it can also make a powerful impact on your bottom line.

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Compliance

Risk Assessment: Important, But Just One Part of the Risk Management Equation

Jennifer Kinion

There are myriad technology tools, wizards, and calculators available for food safety and quality risk assessment, which is good, but these only address a small percentage of the risk management equation. The risk assessment is very important in understanding where risk is in your operation.

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Safety

New Tool From the FDA: Food Safety Plan Builder

Jennifer Kinion

Food Safety Plan Builder was developed by FDA to help companies impacted by FSMA build food safety plans. Food safety consultants can add value.

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Data & Automation

You Can’t Measure What You Can’t Manage

Jennifer Kinion

At SafetyChain, our vision is to not only help the Food & Beverage industry stay compliant, but to leverage compliance data to drive operational excellence that improves net operating margins.

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SafetyQuality

2,500 Listeria Cases Per Year vs. 1 Million Salmonella—Why FDA is So Focused on Listeria

Jennifer Kinion

Our February FSMA Fridays session with David Acheson, MD of The Acheson Group offered insights on why FDA is focusing on listeria and explored the suggested approach companies should take with respect to this pathogen.

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SafetyQuality

Looking Back on the Obama Administration Food Policies

Jennifer Kinion

Blog post courtesy of Jeff Chilton, VP of Professional Services for Alchemy Systems. A look back at the Obama administration’s food policies and their continuing impact on the food industry.

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