Product Safety And Quality Audits

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You may be trapped in "make work" audits. Take this short quiz to find out how your operation’s 3rd-party audit program rates. A score of 80% or higher indicates that your audit program is useful and effective. A score of less than 60% indicates your 3rd-party audit program is not helpful or may need to be reviewed for its usefulness. If you disagree with the answers indicated as being correct on this quiz, it means that your 3rd party audit program is not helpful.

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Product Safety And Quality Audits

Which of these is true with your current external audit program?

As a qualified product safety and quality system manager, you are finding that:

Are you finding that your audit programs are keeping you very busy but have very little, if any, effect on the actual safety and quality of your products?

You are participating in the external audits because:

Your internal audits are not as effective as the external audits. You mostly rely on the external audits because they are more effective in identifying what needs to be fixed.

Are your external audit reports telling you what you already know and sometimes even less than you know?

Are there real food safety and quality issues that external audits have never identified but you know you have to address these after the auditors have left?

Do you sometimes feel bogged down and unproductive while being “audited to death” (i.e. different audits throughout the year)?

Is your Quality Manager spending much time on preparing for audits and associated paperwork verifications that there is little time for a more effectively management of the day-to-day quality issues?

Are your product safety and quality functions spending too much time attending to audits and responding to audit findings that have little to do with product safety and quality?

Do your team members feel nothing else needs to be done after an excellent audit pass, and do you take a break from audit preparations until close to the time of the next audit?

Are consumer and customer complaints heavily weighted in the external audit reports and are consumer and customer communications thoroughly scrutinized during the audits?

Do you depend on the external audit results to determine if your products meet acceptable quality standards and are actually safe?

Do you find that the external auditors are sometimes pressed for time and may not spend enough time to review some parts of the audit?

You are totally committed to the external audits because they actually help you do a good job.

If there is an outbreak of illness cause by our product, the fact that we are audited by a third party certification body will help our case and reduce our legal liabilities.

If our product in stores is tested and found to be unsafe after we have passed our product safety system certification audit, the person who is most at risk is the:

If you are the product safety and quality system manager, you will not mind paying for the external food safety audits from your pocket if necessary because without them you cannot really be sure that your products are safe.