Validating Preventive Food Safety and Quality Controls

Dr. John Ryan was the Administrator for the Hawaii State Department of Agriculture's Quality Assurance Division. He was responsible for developing food safety and traceability systems within the state of Hawaii. Dr. Ryan piloted the USA's first farm-to-fork award winning internet-enabled RFID food traceability system and one of America's early high-technology sensor based temperature control supply chain food safety system. He has recently worked with a number of international companies to establish real-time international food traceability that reports trans-Pacific transportation temperatures and tests for bacteria, explosives and container tampering. He spent two years as co-team leader for President Obama's FDA/CDC Information Technology team and also served on the FDA Performance Management and Standards Developments team. He is the president of Ryan Systems, located in Canyon Lake, CA.

• 1. Background: Understanding common and assignable causes, laws, and costs2. Teams and teamwork for validating preventive food safety and quality control3. Environmental monitoring and sampling4. Developing a preventive controls plan: Food safety and quality5. Preventive system data analysis strategies for common and assignable causes6. Preventing cross-contamination through the supply chain7. Supplier preventive controls and solutions8. Cycle time analysis in preventive food safety and quality control practices9. Other critical preventive control issues, concepts and validation concerns10. Step-by-step implementation of your valid food safety and quality preventive control system11. Case study Chipotle: Common cause failures