Food Quality: Quality, Assurance And Control In Quality

For an industry that can affect human health, it is important to understand and differentiate the terms assurance and control in quality. While quality assurance refers to the process that the food product goes through before it is presented to the customer, quality control is essentially the quality of the food product presented. Control is focused mainly on the adherence of the standards and assurance on the other hand is focused on the process but not specific requirements. While preparing potato crisps for example, quality assurance will explain the pre-set method or type of technology used in preparation and quality control will address the required health and nutritional standards or tests such as ingredients that brought together the

The personnel also make recommendations on the product produced the system used (Australia New Zealand Food Authority).

Define ‘quality’ according to ISO?

Quality for any product according to ISO is the” degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements.” (ISO 9000) degree in this context is the level which is satisfactory and can be termed as either good or bad, inherent characteristics are features used in achieving satisfaction and requirements refers to the needs of the consumer or expectations there of .

Differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic food qualities?

Food production being a process determines what the end product will look like physically and its nutritional value. In the production of the same product, different companies may have different end products, the factors considered referred to as intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic factors dwell on the content of the food in terms of the moisture content, its acidity and nutritional value among others. On the other hand, extrinsic qualities refer to the external appearance, such as the packaging type, storage conditions and steps used in production among others. It is important to note that it is the extrinsic qualities that appeal

However, the main purpose of a standard is setting out agreed principles to guide its users in making reliable conclusions on a process or product. The nature of acceptability of a standard is determined by the originators and its effectiveness. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for example, is a set of internationally accepted standards. Others are British standards that have origin in Britain, PASs that are also mainly British but developed with backing from sponsors among others. It is important to note that ISO standards have different sub-standards for different