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In this month's issue of Wired magazine there is an article that appears to glorify the idea of Good Enough Is OK: http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/magazine/17-09/ff_goodenough. While the author makes some interesting points about how the digital revolution has democratized media by creating technology that allows everyone now to be a movie maker and published author, he seems to, in my opinion, border on being giddy about quality no longer mattering in these areas and so many other areas of our life, that professionalism and quality are passe' and unhip. I wonder about this especially in the context of safety training. When you're providing training that will keep someone from getting injured, even killed, on the job do you really want a training program that's just good enough because it's cheap to produce because you can get your local high school kids to produce it? Where do we draw the line? Are Professionalism and Quality passe', no longer hip? At what point is Good Enough not Good Enough? Or is that no longer a relevant question to ask? Dennis Wilcox
Friday, August 28, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
New FDA Head Says Stricter Food Safety Enforcement Ahead
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According to a recent study by the University of Minnesota's Food Industry Center public confidence in the safety of food supply in the United States is very low. Not a surprise given some of the notable food recalls earlier in the year and last year.
The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) new commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, M.D., says the agency is going to crack down on food manufacturing companies that don't follow food safety laws and regulations. Here is a link to her speech at the beginning of August: www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Speeches/ucm175983.htm.
Think she's serious? Does the FDA even have the means to enforce food safety laws and its own regulations?
Regardless if you are a company in the food manufacturing business are you doing everything you can to make sure your employees are trained in food safety and hygiene and that you are following the law and implementing strict food safety measures that go beyond what the law requires? After all, you are dealing with the public's health and well being, even their lives, when you manufacture and sell food.
According to a recent study by the University of Minnesota's Food Industry Center public confidence in the safety of food supply in the United States is very low. Not a surprise given some of the notable food recalls earlier in the year and last year.
The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) new commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, M.D., says the agency is going to crack down on food manufacturing companies that don't follow food safety laws and regulations. Here is a link to her speech at the beginning of August: www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Speeches/ucm175983.htm.
Think she's serious? Does the FDA even have the means to enforce food safety laws and its own regulations?
Regardless if you are a company in the food manufacturing business are you doing everything you can to make sure your employees are trained in food safety and hygiene and that you are following the law and implementing strict food safety measures that go beyond what the law requires? After all, you are dealing with the public's health and well being, even their lives, when you manufacture and sell food.
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