The special features of quality management for food products, summarized below.
 
 Quality management is more important in the food industry today than ever before. Food quality is a crucial competitive factor and has high societal relevance. Climate change is also making it more difficult to guarantee consistent product quality. This creates additional demands on the processes that are intended to ensure safe processing.
 
 The paramount importance of quality management leads to increasing demands on employees in this field and necessitates continuous professional development. This book provides you with the comprehensive expertise you need to qualify yourself and your employees.
 
 It offers you:
 
 
 
 Expertise in all areas of quality management for food, so that you can optimally establish quality management in your company,
 
 
 Suggestions to improve traceability, transparency, and audit results,
 
 
 Practical examples that will help you manage supply chains smoothly in the future,
 
 
 a comprehensive overview of current developments (e.g. digitalization, agile QM, change management) that you can factor into your long-term planning,
 
 
 Selected international perspectives (with case studies) that will facilitate your collaboration with global partners.