ABSTRACT
Administration (NASA), the U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, and The Pillsbury Company. For NASA, it was crucial that there was a “zero risk” of food safety incidents during any of its space expeditions. However, food safety programs at the time depended on end product testing. For the experts to give NASA the guarantees it wanted, all food for the expedition would have to be subjected to destructive testing. This meant there would be no food for the expedition! A good solution was to be found in a protocol called the failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) that the military engineers used to test reliability of electrical components. The protocol was successfully adapted to assess hazards and control measures in the production of food for space expeditions. NASA had the guarantees it needed, and Dr Bauman had learned the critical control points principle that he later applied to food safety at Pillsbury.
