One can easily achieve, claim, and celebrate success with quasi-goals like the steps on this stairway representation. You can get up to any of them and be stuck there. However, celebrating getting up to any of these steps as if it is the ultimate goal is a regrettable display of folly. 👉 Note that the "control", "confidence", and "consistency" steps mean full control, justifiable confidence, and unwavering consistency of safe food supply. Control is not operations controls that can still fail and ruin full control. Confidence is not pseudo-confidence, and consistency is not assumed consistency. 👉 Note also that reaching the full control step still leaves food operations with several steps before reaching the ultimate goal of #safe_food supply. 👉 Drawing from your knowledge, experience, and from a general observation of food operations, what step on this stairway would you honestly say the global food supply system has reached? Lionel Mathies, Cori Muse, Ron Cook, Homero Ruiz, REHS/RS, Alex Hanley, John Duffill, Sanjay Goyal, Nina Hamid FIH, Professor Keith Warriner, Brita Ball, PhD, Dr. Darin Detwiler, LP.D., Dr. Roy Heywood, M.D., Larry Keener CFS PA IFT Fellow, Francois Bourdichon, Hans-Dieter Philipowski, Ben Fisher, Lily Steel, Claudia Ruiz Reyna, Francine Shaw, CP-FS, FMP, Matt Regusci, florence G., Adrienne Blume, Bryan Armentrout, Jose Sabal, Sharon K. K. Beals, Wasi Asghar, Balkumar Marthi, Savéria de Susini-Hille
Balkumar Marthi
2mo
Felix, I do believe that the food industry directly jumped to the “Compliance” step and I think that may have something to do with where it is. I don’t think there is any level of guarantee of confidence or control. I also believe that it is not a static system - you cannot be complacent if you have “reached” a certain step ( maybe we should add complacency as one of the steps!😁). It’s a moving target and takes a lot of struggle to even stay at a certain level - there’s a reason why we call the process Food Safety MANAGEMENT, not Assurance. With Management, one is constantly trying to improve and get better, until a new target comes along. Hope this makes sense…
The global food supply system seems stuck between control and confidence, still needing much work to hit safe food goals. Felix Amiri
The answer is all of them. I have seen/experienced the full range here and abroad
Food Safety, Security, and Quality Assurance (SSQA) Advocate
2moI am surprised that nobody has offered a suggestion. So let me offer this hint to see if it triggers some comments without influencing your suggestion in response to this question about how far the industry has progressed on this stairway. We could say that all private and regulatory systems for monitoring food businesses, and most of the training programs in the marketplace have brought the industry to this step without signs of moving it higher up the stairway. These systems that are very frequently discussed in the industry appear to have left the industry stock at this step. Do you know, or can you guess which step it is?