Supply Chain Integrity

The food supply chain is global, dynamic, and complex. New and challenging risks are emerging, including climate change, threat of cyber-attacks, product contamination, and unexpected shutdowns of key supply chain infrastructure.

CAFRE can respond to a wide range of food quality and safety issues:

Quality systems

We provide support on audit schedules to enable companies who want to do their own or internal audit check lists.

Quality testing

We provide advice on Chemical and Microbial analytical tests essential to food production, including, microbial testing, nutritional testing, texture analysis, pH & water activity (a_w) analysis.

Food microbiology and allergens

We can help plan shelf-life trials and interpret results.

HACCP

We can help mentor and review plans and risk assessments in line with Codex.

Global quality standards

We can help with quality management specific queries and compliance.

Food authenticity

We provide labelling & legislation, cool labelling, FIR labelling, quid, nutritional & health claims, allergens.

Route cause analysis

We provide guidance on root cause analysis as a method of problem-solving used to determine the underlying reasons for how and why an event (such as product contamination or foodborne illness outbreak) occurred.

Support services including training can be provided at Loughry or at your company site and can be contextualised to your company processing environment.

– Bespoke training to meet business needs.

– Exploring Food Vulnerability (TACCP, VACCP and Food Defence) training.

– Root Cause Analysis training.

– Cooking Validation workshops.