A Safer World

December 12, 2023

Food safety is critical to our society and the overall health of a rapidly growing population. Food safety professionals bear the burden of increasing demands from all directions inside and outside their organizations. Often perceived as “bad” news, there are few accolades for the magnificent work that goes into detecting an unwanted test result. It takes dedication day after day to continue to push for improvement when there are production goals, customer requirements, and regulatory compliance needs to balance.

The longer one is involved with food safety, the more you catch yourself saying, “if they only knew.” A walk through the grocery store becomes an evaluation of food products in a whole new light, much like assessing hitchhikers before you’d consider slowing down and allowing them into your car... or, in this case, your shopping cart. After a little time in a food safety role, you come to realize that there are certain items you will no longer bring into your house or order in a restaurant or sample from the breakroom potluck. Truly, ignorance is bliss!

Food safety is not a department. It is a mission. It is a promise. And it is a dedication to continue to strive to improve processes and procedures, to never settle for good enough, and to always look to continually improve.

Increasingly, food processing and manufacturing organizations are taking a preventative approach to food safety, investing in their organizations’ ability to reduce risk by automating the collection of testing data, making the data actionable, and utilizing automation for manual tasks to reduce human error and ensure accuracy. This approach puts food safety at the forefront of each organization, relying on data for improved decision-making.

Neogen’s mission is to help our customers use their own data to make the world a safer place to eat. This can only happen through the dedication and vigilance of food safety and quality assurance professionals and their desire to continually improve their processes and methods. As your partner in food safety, Neogen acknowledges the hard work that has been done.

We are sincerely thankful to be able to support this noble profession and those who have answered its calling.

Thank you for what you do to make the world a safer place to eat!

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Category: Food Safety, Consumer Goods, Dietary Supplements, Food & Beverage, Pet Food, Allergens, Microbiology, Pathogens, Environmental Monitoring