Qmach muscles in on growing need for regulatory compliance
ways of managing their compliance, quality and food safety
activities to avoid the need to comply with unnecessary and costly
regulatory approval.
Recent events, such as Sudan 1, have highlighted the shortfalls of operating out-dated paper-based systems balanced by the increasing pressure for the food and drink industry to cut costs, rationalise and consolidate. All this means companies want solutions that have an immediate financial payback and significantly increase the utilisation of their much reduced resources.
Qmach, a company that provides specialist support to help achieve quality, food safety improvement and compliance objectives, through the provision of electronic quality management solutions.
Mark Fuller, Qmach's business development director, told FoodQualityNews.com that it is the recent changes in legislation that are increasingly driving the company's sales.
"Food safety professionals are forever telling me that their traditional food safety management systems are very resource-intensive and require a great deal of time and effort to ensure that they are maintained effectively. This leaves them feeling exposed with little or no time to think about improvement, let alone act on it."
The harsh reality of their food safety management often leads to managers wasting their time trying to comply with audits, an inability to demonstrate compliance due to a lack of knowledge about processes involved and loss of valuable time due to processing failures, the company claims.
These issues are further complicated by the fact that companies have no alternative but to comply with changing food safety legislation. However, with one in investment these compliance activities need no longer be so complex, time-consuming and frustrating.
To reduce the time, effort and expenditure required to manage and improve their food safety procedures, businesses all over the world are investing in electronic Quality Management Systems (eQMS).Omach's eQMS solution is OPulse, a system that enables companies to manage the maintenance and review of food safety management systems, in order to maintain regulatory compliance and satisfy customer demand for quality and safety, the company claims.
In addition, eQMS enables companies to reduce exposure to regulatory risk and to reduce compliance costs, as well as to demonstrate compliance on demand to customers and regulatory bodies.
Working with Gael Quality, Qmach has used its experience within the food and drink sector to integrate Gael's Q-Pulse solution with the requirements of food safety management systems.
Combining Gael Quality's experience in delivering eQMS solutions and Qmach's expertise in integrating eQMS with food safety management systems, the companies claims to have formed a specialist partnership that can reduce compliance costs, enhance system's effectiveness and deliver the ability to demonstrate regulatory compliance on demand.
Qmach targets small, medium and large food & drink companies across the globe for the QPulse solution, since it is fully scaleable and appropriate for organisations of any size and in particular those operating to standards such as BRC, ISO and of course HACCP, which becomes a legal requirement from 1st January 2006.
Qmach will be demonstrating QPulse with Gael Quality at Foodtech 2005, in Telford UK, September 7-8 at stand D103.
