Shinsegae Food Food Safety Center Introduces New 'Smart Food Safety System'... Enhances Operational Standards

Researchers are conducting research and analysis experiments on food safety at the Shinsegae Food Food Safety Center located in Icheon, Gyeonggi. (Photo by Shinsegae Food)

[Asia Economy Reporter Seungjin Lee] Shinsegae Food is enhancing the operational level of its Food Safety Center to strengthen food safety.

On the 25th, Shinsegae Food announced that its Food Safety Center will establish a ‘Smart Food Safety System’ that monitors food safety at a level stricter than the standards required by the Food Sanitation Act, and will strengthen food safety management at its catering, dining, and bakery business sites.

Shinsegae Food’s ‘Smart Food Safety System’ is a method where the Food Safety Center collaborates with external specialized institutions to continuously conduct inspections on five major food safety-related items using devices such as surface contamination meters, effective chlorine concentration meters, acid value meters, core temperature meters, and illuminance meters. Inspection results can be immediately checked by on-site managers through tablets in real time, and improvement and issues can be communicated with the Food Safety Center for resolution.

As the importance of food safety in restaurants has been highlighted due to COVID-19, Shinsegae Food will also provide consulting support for certification under the ‘Restaurant Hygiene Rating System’ conducted by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety for about 400 dining, bakery, and cafe stores it operates. Additionally, to create a store environment where consumers can use with confidence, it supports the entire process of obtaining hygiene rating certification and operates an award system to encourage the food safety mindset of on-site managers.

Furthermore, to prevent food safety accidents, it will provide weekly focused management guides until September, operate non-face-to-face hygiene education and self-diagnosis programs for business sites due to COVID-19, and strengthen on-site food safety prevention activities. At the same time, it regularly visits partner companies to inspect food safety, provides newsletters containing food safety information such as food-related laws, domestic and international issues, and trends every month for mutual growth, and offers consulting when technical support is needed.

Kim Jongsuk, head of Shinsegae Food Food Safety Center, said, “Food safety is directly related to customers’ health in daily life, so it is important to thoroughly prevent problems in advance,” and added, “We will do our best to manage food safety so that consumers can enjoy healthy and safe food and beverage services not only for products sold at large marts and online malls but also at catering, dining, and bakery stores operated by Shinsegae Food.”

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