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Use Food Safety to Protect Your Brand...Use Food Safety to Protect Your Brand Knowing the risks and...
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Brand and customer protection are directly tied to food safety. Within the current expectation of brand experience from customers, and with the immediacy of social media, any foodborne issue can damage your reputation and brand quickly and deeply. Only you can prevent foodborne illness. Use Food Safety to Protect Your Brand Knowing the risks and using digital solutions to avoid them Real Problems Maintaining high food service quality is multi-faceted and complex. But the risks are too great to your customer and brand to not make food safety your first priority. Customer Impact 1 in 6 Americans — about 48 million people — are affected by foodborne illness every year. Out of those, about 3,000 die and 128,000 are hospitalized. 1 Economic Impact Foodborne pathogens have an estimated economic impact of $15.5 billion per year (2013) in the U.S. 84% of that economic burden is from deaths related to foodborne illness. 2 Single-source Outbreaks 88% of foodborne disease outbreaks in the United States between 2013 and 2015 were caused by a single food prep location. 3 FSMA Rule The FSMA rule lets the FDA request information to be delivered in 24 hours. Gathering the right data can take several days with paper or spreadsheet tracking. 4 Digital Solutions Paper and spreadsheet tracking is no longer good enough to protect your customers, brand, and reputation. It’s time to go digital to speed up and track your audits and reporting. Time Savers Auditors can spend about 90% of their time looking at paperwork. When you go digital, you can save hours when auditing and reporting, which means you can spend more time on training and improving processes. 5 Transparency Increased visibility helps you spot potential trouble before it becomes a huge problem. Transparency also improves when digital assets are searchable and when reporting happens in seconds. Compliance It can take days to create reports when gathering data from paper or spreadsheet audits. The same work takes seconds when you go digital. This means you will always be well-positioned to pivot quickly or comply with FSMA. Automation With more automation, you’ll certainly save time, but you can also add a layer of fail-safe checkpoints. These will alert stakeholders if problems and trainings aren’t being addressed. Sources Companies can no longer rely on paper and spreadsheets to protect their brand reputations and ensure food safety. RizePoint’s cloud-based auditing and inspection software helps companies quickly identify and fix quality management problems and drive corporate strategy with insight from built-in business intelligence. RizePoint.com 888.313.7095 [email protected] 1 https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/2011-foodborne-estimates.html 2 https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/43984/52807_eib140.pdf 3 https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/februarymarch-2016/implementing-active-managerial-control-principles-in-a-retail-food-business/ 4 https://rctom.hbs.org/submission/walmart-and-block-chain-it-takes-two-to-mango/ 5 http://www.safefoodsblog.com/articles/farm-to-fork/
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Brand and customer protection are directly tied to food safety. Within the current expectation of brand experience from customers, and with the immediacy of social media, any foodborne issue can damage your reputation and brand quickly and deeply. Only you can prevent foodborne illness.
Use Food Safety to Protect Your BrandKnowing the risks and using digital solutions to avoid them
Real ProblemsMaintaining high food service quality is multi-faceted and complex. But the risks are too great to your customer and brand to not make food safety your first priority.
Customer Impact
1 in 6 Americans — about 48 million people — are a�ected by foodborne illness every year. Out of those, about 3,000 die and 128,000 are hospitalized.1
Economic Impact
Foodborne pathogens have an estimated economic impact of $15.5 billion per year (2013) in the U.S. 84% of that economic burden is from deaths related to foodborne illness.2
Single-source Outbreaks
88% of foodborne disease outbreaks in the United States between 2013 and 2015 were caused by a single food prep location.3
FSMA Rule
The FSMA rule lets the FDA request information to be delivered in 24 hours. Gathering the right data can take several days with paper or spreadsheet tracking.4
Digital SolutionsPaper and spreadsheet tracking is no longer good enough to protect your customers, brand, and reputation. It’s time to go digital to speed up and track your audits and reporting.
Time Savers
Auditors can spend about 90% of their time looking at paperwork. When you go digital, you can save hours when auditing and reporting, which means you can spend more time on training and improving processes.5
Transparency
Increased visibility helps you spot potential trouble before it becomes a huge problem. Transparency also improves when digital assets are searchable and when reporting happens in seconds.
Compliance
It can take days to create reports when gathering data from paper or spreadsheet audits. The same work takes seconds when you go digital. This means you will always be well-positioned to pivot quickly or comply with FSMA.
Automation
With more automation, you’ll certainly save time, but you can also add a layer of fail-safe checkpoints. These will alert stakeholders if problems and trainings aren’t being addressed.
Sources
Companies can no longer rely on paper and spreadsheets to protect their brand reputations and ensure food safety.
RizePoint’s cloud-based auditing and inspection software helps companies quickly identify and fix quality management problems and drive corporate strategy with insight from built-in business intelligence.
1https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/2011-foodborne-estimates.html
2https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/43984/52807_eib140.pdf
3https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/februarymarch-2016/implementing-active-managerial-control-principles-in-a-retail-food-business/
4https://rctom.hbs.org/submission/walmart-and-block-chain-it-takes-two-to-mango/
5http://www.safefoodsblog.com/articles/farm-to-fork/
