ABSTRACT
As a result, there have been substantial changes in food industry operations, including significant developments in food quality and food safety activities.
In its continual efforts to address the food quality and food safety requirements of government, customers, and consumers, and in the face of the challenges mentioned earlier, the food industry has embraced generic quality systems and quality programs similar to those used by other industries. At the same time, it has adopted safety systems and programs that
quently, food quality and food safety requirements are addressed through the use of systems and programs that include quality management, quality assurance, quality control, the hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) system, and good manufacturing practices (GMPs). Within a particular food company, the food quality and food safety activities are likely to be covered by some combination of these programs or systems.
