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Food Business Review | Friday, January 22, 2021
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Technology tools can potentially decrease or prevent food spoilage and avoid foodborne illnesses.
Food safety should be a section and parcel of all restaurants, convenience stores, hotels, and other food companies. Technology increases food safety practices that will remove food safety incidents in the future. Furthermore, how effectively do businesses utilize the tech tools to determine their success of the companies.
According to the food and beverage industry CIOs, food businesses should invest in technology to boost their safety and health practices. Tech solutions have turned more accessible so that more food businesses can adopt and use them. With the rise of technological solutions, inventory, auditing, and training relating to food safety protocols can be improved concurrently, ensuring food safety.
CIOs of the industry notice that human errors are the primary reason for foodborne illness outbreaks. Embracing tech tools can help minimize the risks. Here are some technological offerings.
Digital Tools
As businesses consider it expensive and complex to manage, food companies are least affected by technology. They employ pen and paper systems to track food safety records. Hence hotels, restaurants, institutions, and stores that audit in this manner will face increased errors, time, labor, and expenses.
Additionally, the maintenance of hard copy records demands more work, as it is tough to organize, access, analyze, and integrate the data. With the import of digital tools, internal auditing systems can be digitalized that examine the records flawlessly and efficiently. This produces accurate results and is more efficient and cost-effective.
Mobile apps playing automated alerts, surveys, audits, and daily operational checklists periodically make the entire food safety process easy to manage. Preserving audits in an enterprise digital tool supports high consistency and quality levels while helping exponential time savings in reporting and compliance.
Sensors
Sensors guarantee the proper temperature at which food is maintained. An example would be centralized constant refrigeration monitoring systems that notify when the temperatures in coolers or freezers climb beyond the holding temperature. This can save the entire freezer or cooler while disposing of the improperly working units and not the whole team.
Moreover, bad food is easily detected using sensing systems such as E-coli detecting sensors, where E-Coli is the most destructive microbe responsible for food poisoning. It is difficult to detect pathogens, and with this small postage stamp-sized sensor, the presence of E-coli is implied by the light glow. Few sensors prevent batches of food from going bad and find out when food has gone wrong. It is an inexpensive means of sensing, and the sensors are susceptible that they monitor food better. Thus detectors gradually lower the number and intensity of outbreaks of foodborne illnesses.
Mobile Solutions
Indeed, the food industry comprises many employees from younger generations, and they have grown up using their smartphones. Presently, food businesses can leverage digital tools that can be used on cell phones and tablets, which is a simple and effective way to engage younger employees. Many companies provide interesting downloadable apps that enhance how foodservice employees conduct inspections and training, keep temperature logs, access food code information, handle QA forms, and use delightful features.
Certain mobile apps can provide faster, more straightforward, and more safety inspections that are more effective than paper-based generations. These apps have built-in barcode scanner characteristics in the data collection process.
Modern technology presents many tools which can be appropriately used when the employees are appropriately trained. This can reduce food-based hazards and quickly and satisfactorily conduct necessary food safety inspections.