Tim Biela

Tim Biela is the senior vice president of operations and the chief food safety officer for AFA Foods, one of the largest producers of ground beef for commercial fast-food and casual-dining restaurants as well as retail groceries. Biela has been actively involved in food-safety technology and quality systems in the food industry for the past 25 years. He is a member of The National Provisioner’s Editorial Board.

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Clean through hygiene

It is crucial for employees to actually buy in and understand the significance of employee hygiene; here are some strategies to accomplish that goal.
Tim Biela
July 15, 2015
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Recall after recall, there are indications that employee hygiene and good manufacturing practices are not being followed and companies are not leveraging their most powerful tools, their employees, to control the process and prevent these events.


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Battling the natural order of disorder

Well-defined structure and invested energy must be applied to push an organization’s food-safety culture forward.
Tim Biela
April 13, 2015
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Entropy has always been taught as a measure of the disorder in a system containing energy or information. In this definition the less ordered any system is, the greater is its entropy or disorganization.
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Teach, supply, enforce personal hygiene

Tim Biela
January 8, 2010
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Businesses are spending some serious time and money trying to limit the H1N1 flu pandemic’s impact on operations. From showing videos on good hygiene to cross-training employees to cover for co-workers with critical jobs, there is a sense of urgency to ensure employees understand how to mitigate the risks of a flu pandemic in the workplace.
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