Food Safety Focus | Awareness Part 1

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Food Safety Focus

Hello All! 

I hope this message finds all of you and your families safe and well.

This week, I wanted to have a little story time and follow up questions to illustrate something very important to remember in the warehouse.

In this story – One evening, an errand sends me to the store to get milk, so the kids can have cereal for breakfast the next morning.  I go to the store, grab the milk, come home from the store and place it in the fridge, happy to have taken something off my to do list.  The next morning I hear cries of, “Dad! We’re out of milk!” “That can’t be!” I exclaim, because I know I just bought milk and put it away myself the night before.  I go to the fridge and sure enough, there is no milk, only a gallon of … grape juice?! 

Now, how strange is it to go to the store to buy something we need only to come home with something completely different from what we intended to buy and not even know it?  It may happen from time to time for various reasons; items can look like each other; but completely different items?

Now let’s relate this to how many times we receive, store, pick or ship the wrong product in the warehouse.  They ask for corn and we ship peas by mistake; they were supposed to bring in onions and they sent peppers instead and we didn’t catch it, etc.  In warehousing, we know it happens more than we like to admit, but why do we accept errors at work that we would find very odd in our home life?

One reason is we may not look closely at the product we handle.  It is very important that we look closely at the product we are handling, always.  The numbers can run together in our heads sometimes so always make sure you know what the actual product should be, in all instances, and confirm the product is correct.  We’ll talk more about this next week for a focus on product awareness and ways to improve this awareness as a company.

Thank you so much for all that you do each and every Day to ensure safe food for our families.

Justin Straka

Corporate Food Safety Manager

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