- Recalls -Aim for a zero-tolerance goal
- Audit results - Strive for passing within the top two scoring tiers
- External and internal audit non-conformances identified - Assess both the quantity and trends
- Customer complaints - Based on percentage of targeted improvement over baseline results
- Non-conforming product - Number of incidents, and based on percentage of targeted improvement over baseline results
- CCP deviation history - Number of deviations
- USDA NR’s Non-Compliance Records - Quantity and percentage of targeted improvement over baseline results
- Vendor non-conformances - Number of incidents, trend analysis, and percentage of targeted improvement over baseline results
- SSOP results - Number of pre-operational and operational sanitation deficiencies, based on percentage of targeted improvement over baseline results
- Microbiological results - Finished product testing percentage compliance within specification; food contact surface and environmental testing and compliance with goals
- Corrective action results - Number of incidents and effectiveness evaluation to prevent deficiencies
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.
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