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 – support on audit schedules to enable companies who want to do their own or internal audit check lists.
– Quality testing – advice on Chemical and Microbial analytical tests essential to food production, including, microbial testing, nutritional testing, texture analysis, pH & water activity (aw) analysis.
– Food microbiology and allergens – plan shelf-life trials, interpret results.
– HACCP – mentoring, reviewing plans and risk assessments in line with Codex.
– Global quality standards – quality management specific queries and compliance.
– Food authenticity – labelling & legislation, cool labelling, FIR labelling, quid, nutritional & health claims, allergens.
– Route cause analysis – 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.
Cooking (heating) instruction validation workshop
Customer feedback has identified the need for a practical cooking instruction validation workshop. This workshop will provide learners with the necessary information and skills to validate and generate their own internal cooking instructions.
OCN NI Level 3 Award in The Principles of Meat Technology
This programme has been designed to meet the current and future training needs of staff within the meat processing sector.
Food Facilities
Loughry Campus has a wide range of facilities which are used by students and agri-food businesses.
Key contact:
Rosemary Brennan
Senior Technologist (Food)
Rosemary.Brennan@daera-ni.gov.uk