Food and beverage manufacturers
Performing quality audits regularly creates the intelligence and urgency needed to further improve all aspects of product quality . Here are five reasons why quality audits in food and beverage manufacturing should be routine. • What actions are needed to better track, prioritize, and resolve major and minor nonconformities for a particular food or beverage product more quickly? Product quality issues can turn into customer and PR issues surprisingly quickly. Performing regular internal audits to track major and minor nonconformities by product is essential to staying on top of potential major product nonconformities. Collecting nonconformity/corrective action (NC/CA), corrective action/preventive action (CAPA), and trend data based on customer requirements and evaluating nonconformities using a quality management system can be used to identify any quality problem. It helps to define what to deal with first. Being able to capture new records in these areas up to 60 days each mo...