Typical features of a quality management system in the food business

This article studies the issues related to the development and implementation of quality management systems for the food industry. Today, the process of implementing the quality management system is an integral part of almost every company who wants to operate successfully in today''s market for food products. Quality management system provides the company with a huge number of benefits from the sustainable consumer confidence to improve the economic efficiency of the organization as a whole. The quality management system to optimize the activities of the company, its activities aiming at the production that best meets the expectations of consumers, aiming at the prevention of failures and inconsistencies, and not for their elimination. However, the process of development and implementation of quality management system is quite complex and requires maximum concentration of resources and efforts of the enterprise, this process is often associated with large-scale transformation that many enterprises are quite painful. The key points of procedure development and implementation of the quality management system are not control individual processes of an enterprise, and a comprehensive and systematic approach to the organization as a whole; good governance and the involvement of all employees in this complex process. The author reveals some elements inherent in the process of developing and implementing a quality management system for the food industry, which are sanctified on the basis of the analysis of literary sources on this problem, and based on the analysis of practical experience in the implementation of quality management system a number of regional food production enterprises.