How do you balance QA and QC in food manufacturing?

In food manufacturing, food safety and quality is of utmost importance and that is actually what quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) seek to achieve. While quality assurance focuses on the process(es) that yield the desired products as well as documentation, employee trainings to bridge knowledge gap, process audits, etc..quality control focuses on identifying defects (if present) in manufactured products through inspections in order to ensure that defectives or unsafe products do not get to the final consumer. Both QA and QC are important to achieve an effective quality management system.

Building a robust food safety management system can be simplified and easily achievable with the successful integration of QA and it's twin counterpart QC. QA would be the starting point and main framework that defines the whole system and splits it into achievable steps towards an undefective product and .... QC that invariable must comes in after, to monitor and re-validate the laid down system for possible loopholes due to inefficiencies faced in the physical word. I.e the QA deliverables are embedded in every SOP of operational tasks given while the QC checks for resultant defect due to errors and loss of control

In my experience, the best way to implement the quality assurance is to train the every person in an organization and to create the quality assurance culture in the same way as food safety culture is focused. Every person in the organization, weather he is related to the production operation or not, must have a sound knowledge about the quality at every step in the supply chain. Definitely, quality is also a shared responsibility

Training is key as is knowledge. To excel is QA learn everything you can and you won't go far wrong. I ensure I learn everything I can, and there's always something new. Because of the way I work I've passed 59 BRCGS audits with a minimum of a grade A. Passion to do great job helps and is missing alot these days

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QA/QC collaboration drives home the essence of quality and food safety. While QA is like the backbone where quality policies are transformed into guidelines, frame work for the control processes, quality control on the other hand implements these policies and guidelines in the processes

Quality control (QC) system is product-aligned that aids to evaluate the outputs or product of the manufacturing process already set. Quality assurance (QA) system is process-aligned this aids to improve the manufacturing process and improve quality standards throughout the entire manufacturing process. While QA and QC are of utmost importance for ensuring Food safety and Quality standard compliance of the entire manufacturing process, they should not be applied alone but rather together for the benefits the entire process and quality product. G. N. Duru