Nye Hardy, Senior Food Safety Manager, Discusses How Food Safety Chain Management Technology is Supporting Pro-Active Approach to Food Safety
On February 28, Nye Hardy, Senior Food Safety Manager for Dole Fresh Vegetables, was interviewed live during a webcast attended by hundreds of food safety professionals. The case study interview focused on how Dole Fresh Vegetables, a subsidiary of Dole Food Company, the world’s largest producer of fresh fruits and vegetables, is leveraging SafetyChain Software’s SafetyChain for Food™ to support its proactive approach to food safety.
Ms. Hardy covered topics including:
- Dole Fresh Vegetables’ overall approach to food safety
- The key business drivers for adopting technology to support its efforts
- Why it selected SafetyChain for Food
- Keys to successful adoption of the technology via smart mobile devices in the field
- How SafetyChain for Food gets pre-harvest food safety assessment information to the right people in realtime for the fastest corrective actions possible
- How Food Safety Chain Management promotes fast response to FDA and customers – and promotes audit readiness
- Preparation for FDA’s food safety modernization act (FSMA)
- Results and lessons learned
- Future phases, including traceability
Hardy was joined by SafetyChain’s SVP and co-founder, Barbara Levin, who described how SafetyChain for Food helps food and beverage companies save time, save money and promote safety and quality compliance at all points along a company’s supply chain, with solutions for food supplier compliance, supplier certificate of analysis (COA)/food safety specification management, supplier reporting/score-carding, safety and quality data reporting with realtime deviation alerts, HACCP program automation, GFSI compliance, finished product reporting and customer compliance management.
For those interested in receiving invitations to upcoming SafetyChain webcasts, and our new series premiering in April, FSMA Fridays™, send an email to info@safetychain.flywheelstaging.com and put “Please add me to invite list” in the subject line. In the body of the email please include your Name, Title, Company and Email address.
About SafetyChain Software
SafetyChain Software’s SafetyChain for Food™ helps the food and beverage industry manage safety and quality compliance in realtime – preventing non-compliant ingredients, raw materials and finished product from coming in or going out. With SafetyChain for Food’s affordable solution modules – for Supplier Compliance & Management, Safety & Quality Data Reporting, HACCP/GFSI Compliance and Customer & Finished Product Compliance – food growers, producers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, food services and importers save time, save money and create efficiencies that contribute to the bottom line. SafetyChain for Food is a global, Software-as-a-Service solution, designed for fast deployment and even faster ROI. www.safetychain.flywheelstaging.com
About Dole Food Company
Dole, with 2011 net revenues of $6.9 billion, is the world’s largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruit and fresh vegetables, and is the leading producer of organic bananas. Dole markets a growing line of packaged and frozen fruit and is a produce industry leader in nutrition education and research.