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Digital technology, combined with a commitment to transparent self-assessments/corrective actions, is key to the most effective Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) that will provide assurance of Active Managerial Control in a restaurant. We have all experienced the impact of digital technology (often in the form of mobile apps on a smartphone) through the use of these technologies to manage our daily work. Restaurant employees may not normally associate digital technology applications like mobile apps on a smartphone with food safety management in a restaurant, though they frequently use mobile apps for many other similar purposes at work and home. Most restaurant businesses use paper checklists to perform daily self-assessments of quality, inventory, work schedules, etc., and only use checklist for limited monitoring of food safety controls such as for checking the temperature of foods. However, the need for digital technology to enable the necessary comprehensive management of food safety controls in a restaurant using FSMS is significant because of these:
The future of food safety is DIGITAL
Steven A. Lyon, Ph.D., Chick-fil-A
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King, H. (2020). Digital Technology to Enable Food Safety Management Systems. In: Food Safety Management Systems. Food Microbiology and Food Safety(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44735-9_7
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