If I were to ask, on a scale of one to 10, how often food safety is discussed in your organization, what would you say? When your company executives gather for routine meetings to talk about the direction in which the company is moving, where does food safety fall on the agenda? Is it the first item, or the last? Is food safety even addressed?
These are critical and often overlooked questions that can make or break any meat processing company. Unfortunately, while most processors are happy to proclaim they truly care about food safety, those are the same companies that will only publicly say that they care about food safety in the midst of a crisis. And, in most of those cases, it’s the absence of a strong food safety culture that led to the crisis in the first place.