Utilizing Food Safety Audits to Ensure Brand Integrity Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
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October 12, 2020
Utilizing Food Safety Audits to Ensure Brand Integrity Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
By NSF International
With waves of COVID-19 outbreaks driving the daily cadence of business around the world, maintaining and building on customer relationships is key for success moving forward into the post-COVID-19 business environment. Throughout the pandemic, audit specifiers have moved through phases of “wait and see” to an “all or nothing” mentality that on-site audits were the only way to assess a supplier, and finally on to the most recent embracing of remote or “virtual” audits. With the limitations of travel and auditor resource limits predicted to last into early 2021, drivers for a line of sight into food safety practices of manufacturers through a second- or third-party audit remain strong.
With consumers staying close to