Feb 1st, 2021
2 mins
The Chilled Food Association (CFA), in collaboration with Food Standards Scotland, have recently published useful new CFA Guidance on ‘Getting the Best from Third Party Laboratories’.
The guidance aims to raise awareness of the need to use analytical laboratories with the right expertise, accreditations, using appropriate methods and facilitate development of partnerships between such third-party laboratories and their customers in the food industry, moving away from purely transactional arrangements.
Greater transparency is needed from both Food Business Operators (FBOs) and laboratories to achieve this, with greater understanding of each other’s needs and impacts on business and working to agreed Key Performance/Continuous Improvement Indicators regarding resilience, reliability, relevance and sustainability of analytical services, all of which are covered.
The focus of this first edition is on microbiological analytical services provided by a third party to a FBO and includes:
- Checklist
- Fitness for Purpose – Laboratories and Methods
- Provision of Samples to Laboratories
- Reporting Results
- Complaints Procedure
- Selecting a laboratory through tender
- Special measures for laboratories
- Contracts
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