ABSTRACT
Many well-established companies give product quality a primary role in the organization. This effort requires a special group of professionals that the companies include under a vice president of quality assurance who reports directly to the president. Quality assurance (QA) describes and manages the activities of control, evaluation, audits, and regulatory aspects of a food processing system. A QA program consists of an in-house consulting organization; it evaluates the quality program and gives advice, suggestions, and instructions for its improvement.
