ASQ Food Safety Statement
The American Society for Quality (ASQ), has submitted a written statement on US Food quality and safety to the Congressional Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The subcommittee recently held hearings entitled “Diminished Capacity: Can the FDA Assure the Safety and Security of the Nation’s Food Supply?”
The ASQ determined that the Subcommittee should address many issues including:
System and process control i.e. quality assurance rather than quality control
Supply Chain Management and a need to evaluate supply chain and market mechanisms for ensuring food safety as well as concentrating on key critical control points.
International Data System for Traceability. and the development of traceability systems as a pre-requisite to food safety.
Carbon monoxide Transparency of labelling all foods that have been treated with carbon monoxide.
Implement recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s 2003 report, “Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food”.
To view ASQ’s statement, check out http://www.asq.org/advocacy/index.html. ASQ also discussed specific issues surrounding food safety in its most recent Quarterly Quality Report, titled “Food Safety: A Quality Management Systems Approach,” which can be found at http://www.asq.org/quality-report/index.html.
The ASQ determined that the Subcommittee should address many issues including:
System and process control i.e. quality assurance rather than quality control
Supply Chain Management and a need to evaluate supply chain and market mechanisms for ensuring food safety as well as concentrating on key critical control points.
International Data System for Traceability. and the development of traceability systems as a pre-requisite to food safety.
Carbon monoxide Transparency of labelling all foods that have been treated with carbon monoxide.
Implement recommendations of the Institute of Medicine’s 2003 report, “Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food”.
To view ASQ’s statement, check out http://www.asq.org/advocacy/index.html. ASQ also discussed specific issues surrounding food safety in its most recent Quarterly Quality Report, titled “Food Safety: A Quality Management Systems Approach,” which can be found at http://www.asq.org/quality-report/index.html.
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