Food - Quality Control and Quality Assurance

Food Quality control (QC) s a reactive process and aims to identify and rectify the defects in finished products. It can be achieved by identifying and eliminating sources of quality problems to ensure customer’s requirements are continually met. It involves the inspection aspect of quality management and is typically the responsibility of a specific team tasked with testing products for defects.

Food Quality assurance (QA) is a collection of quality assurance activities in the processes by which goods are produced. It is a constructive process that helps to eliminate defects by focusing on the process used to produce the product. The aim of QA is to enhance the production and testing processes so as not to cause defects while the product is being produced. This session focuses on food supply chain risk and controls.