Georgetown: The Trade Facilitation Organisation (TF0) of Canada, supported by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), hosted a SQF Food Safety Management Training Workshop recently.
Safe Quality Food (SQF) is a food-safety certification scheme. The SQF Food Safety Management System (FSMS) is designed to provide organisations with a rigorous system to manage food safety risks and provide safe product customers with recognised food- safety certification.
The workshop, held in the conference room of IICA’s Brickdam location, featured about 20 participants from several businesses from across Georgetown, including Sterling Products, Jets Enterprise and Tandy’s Enterprise.
The two-day workshop, which will conclude today, was facilitated by James Van Ells. Van Ells began his food career with a BSc degree in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, followed by a master of Agriculture with a major in Food Science from the University of Minnesota.
Van Ells presented on the actuality that the Safe Quality Food Institute recognises that food safety practices differ, depending on the food- safety risk to the product and the process, and has designed a code to meet individual requirements of each industry sector. The SQF Code outlines the requirements for a supplier involved in the primary production, manufacturing, processing, transport, storage, distribution or retailing of food products and food- contact packaging.
The code also describes the auditable requirements that must be met by the supplier to achieve certification to the SQF Code. It is divided into 16 modules that must be met, commensurate with the producer or food supplier’s food industry sector.
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