Food safety... It’s crucial, even fundamental to the success of any food company - whether it is at the production, processing or retailing end of the business.
Yet the incidence of food-borne illness continues to rise. It’s bad for business but there are also added incentives to tighten up on food safety. Our food legislation is being strengthened as part of the change from prescriptive food safety regulations to an enabling risk management focus that puts the responsibility directly onto the producer or processor.
Help is at hand. The New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (NZIFST) has compiled a food industry guide to good manufacturing practice and produced a food safety training video.
NOW AVAILABLE AS A DVD.
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About the Video
The video/DVD "Food Safety: Introductory Training in the Food Industry" is a fundamental food safety training aid aimed at New Zealand food manufacturers. It is designed to facilitate discussion and to illustrate the different means of achieving food safety over a variety of industries and companies (of various sizes). Topics covered include: 
What is food safety?
Who is responsible?
Contamination of Food
Microbiology
Temperature control
Food storage
Personal hygiene
Food preparation and service
Cleaning and sanitising
Pest control.
The video was sponsored by AgriQuality and produced by a Christchurch based company, Diage Multimedia. The need for the video became obvious when Lesley Steeples tried to find suitable New Zealand food safety training material but could only find overseas videos focussed mainly on the hospitality industry.
Twenty New Zealand food manufacturing companies allowed their premises to be filmed. Topics covered include food contamination, pest control and personal hygiene as well as food storage and microbiology (including some fascinating shots of live Listeria growing on a culture plate!). The video is based on food safety standards 167 and 168.
"It’s a video that could be used by anyone in the food industry to get across key points in the food safety message. The video has been designed so it can be stopped for a discussion of points raised," Lesley Steeples says.
Project team co-ordinators were Cathy McArdle (Cerebos Greggs Ltd) and Chris Yates (AgriQuality). Other members of the NZIFST team were Frances Bostock (Hawkins Watts), Tanya Reid (Massey University) and Lesley Steeples (Bluebird Foods).
How To Order:
To order your copy of Food Safety Introductory Training for the Food Industry video or DVD (please specify), download the order form and fax or mail it back to NZIFST:
Good Manufacturing Resources Order Form 
Fax: +64 6 356 1687
Post: NZIFST, PO Box 8031, Palmerston North, NEW ZEALAND.
Email: Executive Manager NZIFST
Prices (DVD/video):
New Zealand: $135.00 including GST.
Australia: $120AUD.
International: $100USD.
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