...Our prOgress in 2011 Creating a more delicious world Message from Our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 2011 was another challenging year. Economic turmoil. Political upheaval. Natural disasters. The world as we knew it has surely changed. But despite the challenges, Kraft Foods not only survived but thrived— as evidenced by our top-tier financial performance and our growing reputation as one of the world’s leading companies. We did that by staying focused on what matters most—to our business and to our stakeholders—and by raising the bar across the company. Improved performance doesn’t happen by accident. It takes hard work (lots of it) and commitment. I’m proud to lead the team who made 2011 such a success for our company. And I’m equally proud that our success benefited not only our shareholders but also our employees, their communities, those we buy from, those we sell to and those who enjoy our delicious products around the world. From investing in sustainable agriculture to eliminating waste and promoting healthy lifestyles, we continue to evolve the way we do business to reduce our environmental impact and enhance our contributions to society while delivering outstanding financial performance. This report provides a snapshot about what we do, why we do it and how we’re getting on. It highlights key facts about the five areas that matter most to society and to our business. Building and sustaining brands people love and trust takes dedication. And our progress...
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...Food sanitation is the practice of following certain rules and procedures to prevent the contamination of food, keeping it safe to eat. Many jurisdictions around the world have specificfood sanitation laws, along with lists of regulations created by public health agencies. The practice of food sanitation is recommended at every step of the supply chain within the food industry, from workers in crop fields to waiters at restaurants. The term "food sanitation" typically refers to rules and procedures within the food industry, whether during production, packaging, transporting or serving. At the consumer level, such as in a home kitchen, practices designed to ensure that food is uncontaminated and safe to eat are often referred to using the term "food hygiene." 1 Food Safety Issues From the moment that food is produced or harvested to the time that it is eaten, it is vulnerable to contamination from bacteria and other substances that could be harmful. The key to food sanitation is keeping food safe and clean, with all of its handlers complying with the necessary rules and recommendations. These rules concern things such as safe holding temperatures for the food; safe cooking temperatures; sterilization of cutting boards and other implements; proper attire for handlers, such as gloves and breathing masks; and times or dates by which the food should be eaten, served or sold. AdChoices |Food Packing Machine |Source Supplier of Food Packing Machine...
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...Over the years there has been a major controversy about how safe the United States food supply. For the past decade, many Americans have being diagnosed with terminal diseases such as cancer. In 2012, The American Cancer Society estimated 1,638,910 Americans were diagnosed and 577,190 died. Not only does cancer effect the American population but also foodborne illnesses, diabetes, heart disease, strokes, and obesity. Each year about 48 million people get sick from it, 130,000 are hospitalized and about 3,000 die. The big question is how are so many people in today’s world becoming sick with deadly diseases such as cancer and foodborne illnesses. Many believe that it is being put into our food. The Food and Drug Administration also known as the FDA is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Services that is responsible for controlling and regulating the country’s food safety, medicine, tobacco products and more. The U.S. government is killing Americans by allowing the FDA to approve dangerous drugs being put into our food supply....
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...“Food Safety- noun- the issues surrounding the production, handling, storage and cooking of food that determine whether or not it is safe to eat.”(Agriculture Dictionary.com) Have you ever wondered if what you are buying from the grocery store or market is safe to eat? Or if the Burger you ordered is fresh? Well, in the U.S. you can obtain a deadly bacterium by just eating a single under cooked burger or even grabbing a fresh healthy salad, which contains E.Coli from unwashed produce. Your daily food consumption needs to be a constant concern to every member of your family. The Food and Drug Administration is attempting to keep things in control but every year there are over 1,000 incidences reported and hundreds of deaths from contaminated food. Until the agencies that are in charge of food safety which include the FDA and also the Department of Agriculture and World Trade Organization. Recently they added the Food Safety Modernization Act, but even with this department’s food safety is still a major global issue. In order to improve food safety and quality the Food and Drug administration needs more power to mandate inspections more frequently and to increase the severity of the requirements to prevent deadly pathogens that cause thousands of illnesses and deaths each year. There is major concern for the safety of our food in the United States. According to Hosansky, “an estimated 5,000 people die yearly and some 76 million are sickened because of food borne pathogens like...
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...Issues in the Food Supply Chain (Source: Roger W. Hutt, Arizona State University) High-value and processed foods, accounting for three-fourths of total world food sales have increased in response to consumers diversifying their diets or demanding higher-quality and labor-saving food products (Regmi and Gehlhar, 2005). More and more, consumers are asking for convenience, and the food system is responding. The relatively higher cost of a ready-to-serve bag of salad is preferable to a head of lettuce that must be trimmed and prepared. Demand for foreign brands and consumer-ready products, in particular, are expanding as well. Food producers and marketers are responding to the demands of the marketplace. Producers are investing in processing facilities in many host companies. Adjusting to meet the needs of consumers, retailers are importing high-value foods from around the world and selling it from a variety of retail store formats, with supermarkets and hypermarkets accounting for more than fifty-percent of global packaged food sales in 2003 (U. S. Department of Agriculture, Global Food Industry Structure, 2007). Globalization and safety and defense of the nation’s food system are themes very much intertwined in the literature. As Cheek (2006) pointed out, “Today, global consumers are demanding a source-verified and disease-free food supply. . . Changing consumer attitudes have resulted in demands for greater food safety on the retail market.” Food safety describes...
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...Department telephone Ambulance telephone ‘s work address Call 911 for emergencies Telephone/cell phone ‘s work address Telephone/cell phone ‘s school Telephone/cell phone School policy: ❏ Hold student ❏ Release student ‘s school Telephone/cell phone School policy: ❏ Hold student ❏ Release student Name and telephone/cell phone number of an out-of-town relative or friend who can act as a pointof-contact for separated family members: Location of Disaster Supplies Kit: Earthquake Hazards in the United States Highest Hazard Kauai Honolulu Kalawao Lowest Hazard Maui Hawaii Based on U.S. Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Map for the Coterminous United States (http://eqhazmaps.usgs.gov/html/map_graphic.html). Are You Prepared for the Next Earthquake? This booklet is designed to help you and your family plan for and survive a major earthquake. By taking action to be prepared, you can lessen the impact of an earthquake on your family. Set aside some emergency supplies, and teach your family what to do at home during and after a disaster. You could be without help for up to 72 hours, so learn to cope for at least that long. Movement of the ground is seldom the actual cause of death or injury. Most casualties result from partial building collapse and falling objects and debris, like toppling chimneys, falling bricks, ceiling plaster, and light xtures. Many of these conditions are easily preventable. Because earthquakes occur without warning...
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...Importance Food security will be helpful if enough food is available for all the persons, there is no barrier to access of food and all persons have the capacity to buy food of acceptable quality. Food availaabilty is a necessary condtion for food security. India is more or less self sufficient in cereals but deficit in pulses and oil seeds. Due to changes in consumption patterns, demand for fruits, vegetables, dairy, meat, poultry, and 38 fishery products has been increasing. There is a need to increase crop diversification and improve allied activities. It may be noted that the slowdown in agriculture growth could be attributed to structural factors on the supply side, such as public investment, credit, technology, land and water management, etc., rather than globalization and trade reforms per se. There are six deficits in Indian agriculture. These are: (i) investment, credit, and infrastructure deficit; (ii) land and water management deficit; (iii) research and extension (technology) deficit; (iv) market deficit; (v) diversification deficit; and (vi) institutions deficit. Reforms are needed to reduce these deficits in order to achieve the following goals of agriculture: (i) 4 per cent growth in agriculture; (ii) equity in terms of higher growth in lagging regions, small and marginal farmers, and women; and (iii) sustainability. Access to food can be increased through employment due to growth in labour intensive sectors and/or through social protection programmes. The...
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...Red Cross goes to all measures when we help for your health, because your health is beyond just antibiotics. They bring in food and water to those in need after a horrifying attack. When the people come to us for help we do not want to just give them medicine we want to give them the strength to fight on their own. While we give them nutrients we are also going to give them the main need in this time, which is shelter. Not only do they need food to strengthen them they need rest and a good place to feel safe. There are not many safe places for people in all of this chaos, so we are providing a comfortable place for people to rest. Once we have brought you back to full health we can no longer keep you in our facility. However, we will not just throw you out into the wild; we will send with you the relief items that are needed to help you start your journey. In this aid kit will be medication, bandages, and a small portion of food to help when you are in an emergency. A first aid kit goes a long ways in this situation. So in every way possible we will help you as much as we...
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...Emergency Plan For Food Defense South-Western City School District TABLE OF CONTENTS I | Overview | | A | Purpose of the Plan | 4 | B | Planning Assumptions | 5 | II | Mitigation and Prevention | | A | Vulnerability Assessment | 6 | B | Prevention Strategies | 6 | III | Preparedness | | A | Security | 9 | B | Supervision | 11 | C | Safety | 14 | D | Maintenance | 15 | E | Record Keeping | 15 | F | Training | 16 | G | Emergency Contacts | 16 | IV | Response | | A | Detection | 18 | B | Contamination | 18 | V | Recovery | | A | After Action Review | 20 | B | Document Archive | 20 | VI | Appendices | | A | School Food Defense Assessment Checklist | 21 | B | Online Resources | 24 | C | Acronyms | 26 | South-Western City Schools Emergency Plan for Food Defense The Emergency Plan for Food Defense is an incident management strategy that serves to augment the South-Western City School District’s Schools Emergency Response Plan. In order to ensure efficient and effective emergency management, the Food Defense Plan must be implemented in its entirety. I. Overview Children are a high risk population for food-borne illness. Both natural disasters and human-caused mistakes have the potential to contaminate the food supply, debilitate food service facilities and cause disease. These incidents include weather-related emergencies (e.g., flood, earthquakes, drought, heat wave, extended power outages), processing errors...
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...convenience During the street is quite narrow, so it has a limited parking capacity approximately 4 cars in front the shop, but in front or near the shop has other place to park. Organizational structure Job Description General Manager * Develops and executes sales and profit plans that are in-line with budgetary goals. * Ensures and is accountable for profitability of the store by growing sales and controlling costs of goods, inventory levels, labor, supplies and expenses. * Maintains and utilizes daily, weekly, quarterly and annual financial reporting tools. * Ensures proper team member coverage, scheduling according to the needs of business while maintaining target labor costs. * Oversees all cash and media management functions. Able to perform all POS duties, front and back of house functions including opening and closing procedures, coordinating with the Corporate Office as necessary. * Maintains proper loss prevention standards, reviewing cash handling procedures, deposits and safe procedures. * Plans, executes and...
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...June 26th, 2003 I woke up from sleep to the monitors saying that it was safe to come out from the bomb shelters. The world was at war and everyone was in safe places for about a year. A lot of people weren’t prepared for this because it came out of nowhere. Most of the people probably didn’t make it. I was so worried to go out and see what had happened. I miss my family and I’ve been going crazy. I’ve been alone for about a year. I had no idea what happened to my family. They must not be alive. If they were I would have no idea where they are I thought. I was so scared to go outside but I knew I had to eventually. I put all my belongings into a certain area with a lock because I didn’t want to risk anyone taking my stuff. Who know what people could be like. They could be going crazy. People could’ve ran out of food and are going mad crazy to find food. I wasn’t going to risk it....
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...used for cloning. It also describes about how much meat of cloned cattle entered the food supply before it was stated safe to eat. This academic journal focuses on the health of the cloned animals and about which cell transfer is better to use. This article is somewhat related to my topic because it still has some good facts about why the cloned meat is safe to eat. "For Consumers." Animal Cloning and Food Safety. US Food and Drug Administration, 15 Jan. 2008. Web. 05 Nov. 2013. On the FDA Website, it shows that the US Food and Drug administration concluded that clones of cattles, pigs, and goats are safe as food we eat every day. This website talks about how the cloned animals are healthy just like conventionally bred animals. It also states that the FDA won’t have to put food labels on the cloned meat because they did tests to prove that they are safe to eat. This website contains all facts and it’s not biased at all. This website is very relevant to my topic because it answers my question about cloned food being safe or not. Martin, Andrew. "F.D.A Says Cloned Animals Safe to Eat." Nytimes.com. New York Times, 15 Jan. 2008. Web. 5 Nov. 2013. This article talks about how cloning companies will benefit from the new statement made by the F.D.A. and about cloning spreading over the world. It also talks about how some groups thought the study wasn’t enough to make cloning animals safe to eat. This is a newspaper article and it isn’t...
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...seasons and the weather, your need for water remains the same. Remember that 95% of human blood is water. HEALTHY CONCIOUS LIVING In these health conscious days water makes a great contribution to overall hydration.It is fat and kilojoule free and a great thirst quencher, which makes it a great choice for the health conscious consumer. Many people wish to get back to basics and drink something that is refreshing and pure. Some people also wish to avoid certain chemicals used in the treatment of public water supplies, such as chlorine and fluoride, and are therefore turning to the chemical free alternative. CONVENIENCE With the development of more widespread leisure and activities and the expansion of travel, for business and pleasure, consumers are increasingly turning to the convenience of bottled water for their refreshment. TASTE One of the main reasons why people buy bottle water is its taste! With the variation in tastes of the different local water supplies across the country, more people prefer the consistent refreshing taste of bottled water. MORE FACTS ON BOTTLED WATER......
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...greener, to shake people and the world. As with many new technologies, tampering with DNA, especially of food crops called Genetically Modified Foods (GMFs), has benefits, potential problems, and an onslaught of critics. Opposition to GMFs is ineffective as a result of inactive individuals, lack of government intervention, and dubious campaigns. GMFs have not been in our lives for a long time, but...
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...to be ready and prepare. You should always be ready you may never know when a hurricane warning might be issued to your area. Learn all the evacuation zones near you, and pack a little bag for your primary essentials bc you might be at risk and be in a evacuation area so it will be best to be ready. Like most people say you can always rebuild a house but you can’t rebuild a lifetime of memories. Therefore, make sure you take anything important; have enough: food, water and medicine; And Evacuating. First of all, make sure have all important documents with you for any reason during the hurricane. As stated in the article...
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