Technologies that May Help Enhance Food Safety

Food safety is essential to minimize not just the financial and reputational costs of a foodborne illness outbreak but also the adverse publicity and lost revenue.

Fremont, CA: Every company's biggest nightmare is a food safety incident. Employees are usually busy, and a lapse in handwashing, incorrectly stored meat, or a missed line check can result in a foodborne illness outbreak that harms your brand. With one in every six Americans becoming ill from foodborne illnesses each year and two-thirds of outbreaks originating in restaurants, food safety is vital to the health of your customers and business.

Technologies that may help enhance food safety:

Automated monitoring

Sensors in coolers, freezers, and other rooms where food is stored are increasingly becoming a must-have for many organizations. You can rapidly address the problem without having to throw out a freezer full of food if you have food safety technology in place, such as sensors that signal you when the temperature climbs above safe holding temperatures. Continuous monitoring ensures that food is stored safely in a way that manual inspections cannot.

E-learning

While it's natural to think of food safety technology in terms of gadgets or solutions that monitor food or sanitize surfaces, training in effective food safety methods is just as vital. You can provide staff bite-sized reminders of what they should be doing to keep people safe, thanks to the rise of e-learning approaches like microlearning. Employees only need a minute to acquire food safety refreshers because microlearning is so quick and easy to administer.

Inspection apps

Internal and external audit compliance might be difficult, but it doesn't have to be a nightmare. Moving audits from spreadsheets to a platform designed to assist you in carrying out and tracking food safety standards is one of the simplest ways to do this. Automatic HACCP logging, avoiding employee fraud, advising corrective actions, and more are all possible using food safety technologies, food safety software, or cloud-based apps.