Ecolab Unveils Innovative Tested Tool To Improve Food Safety
Zacks Investment Research | Jun 10, 2019 09:53PM ET
Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL) has recently launched an innovative and tested tool – Food Safety Culture Assessment – that will help in measurement and advancement of food safety behaviors and enhance the overall food safety culture associated with food retail organizations. With this new tool, the Ecolab expects to efficiently improve food safety and provide a boost to its Global Industrial segment.
Notably, this tool has been introduced as part of World Food Safety Day on Jun 7, 2019.
Few Words About Food Safety Culture Assessment
Given the constant need for fresh food and varied eating options from restaurants and the foodservice industry, food safety risks increase rapidly. Apart from improving food safety, it is imperative to ensure customer safety. Consequently, the requirement to add new risk reduction techniques to the portfolio becomes a pressing need.
The Food Safety Culture Assessment is a series of easy-to-read and comprehensible questions on the key elements of an effective food safety culture. The assessment will take only minutes to complete, and the results can help to detect trends based on unique attributes important to a company.
Moreover, Ecolab can conduct the assessment across all levels of an organization. The assessment results are then reported with an overview by question and category, a Food Safety Culture Index, an industry benchmark score, and recommendations created to help prioritize an organization’s action planning efforts.
The assessment can be taken annually or at any desired frequency that will help in checking the progress when it comes to maintaining and strengthening a robust food safety culture.
The tool has been created to offer better visibility into attitudes and actions of frontline employees, managers and corporate officers and detect the areas that require improvement.
Importance of Food Safety
Food safety is very critical in today’s world as the continued success of a business depends on it.
According to World Health Organization (WHO) access to sufficient amount of safe and nutritious food is the key to sustained lives and promotion of good health.
Unsafe food carries harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances that leads to more than 200 diseases ranging from diarrhea to cancers.
An estimated 600 million – almost 1 in 10 people in the world – fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420,000 die every year, resulting in the loss of 33 million healthy life years (DALYs).
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