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Know more about food safety apps and pick the right one for you
Published 3 Jun 2022
A food safety app is a digital tool that provides you with a powerful mobile solution that gives an overview of your food safety measures and ensures that actions are well documented. It can be used by both professionals and homemakers to help assure the safety of their food, kitchen, and cooking. Also known as a food safety software or food safety audit software, a food safety app can come in different forms that target different needs. Many of the world’s leading food chain operators conduct regular and stringent food safety audits to strengthen their compliance with regulations and international food safety standards such as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP), ISO 22000, Food Safety Systems Certification (FSSC) 22000, and the Food Safety Monitoring Act (FSMA).
iAuditor by SafetyCulture is a free to download food safety software solution that helps eliminate paper-driven audit processes and modernize the food safety compliance program. All you need is a mobile device, and you can capture critical food safety information, even on sites where there’s no internet connection. Build digital checklists that allow your auditors to produce comprehensive reports—complete with photo/video evidence, notes, and corrective action details.
With iAuditor, your audits and inspections will be immediately saved in the cloud for reference of authorized personnel. Food manufacturers, suppliers, and service firms can easily access old audits and present them to HACCP or FSSC 22000 auditors with ease. iAuditor also allows for temperature sensors to be integrated into its system, helping track the travel of food products in the cold chain process with its readings going straight to the app even from afar for easy access and reading
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Best For: All industries and individuals.
Pricing: Free for teams and families with less than 10 members. The paid version starts at $19 a month with a 30-day free trial and with room for more members.
The Foodkeeper App is a free food safety app developed by the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service, Cornell University, and the Food Marketing Institute to promote better food waste management and food keeping and safety practices in the US. This app aims to help homemakers and food inventory managers by offering storage advice for different food and drink items, cooking tips, and a tracking system to remember expiry dates.
Best For: Professionals and homemakers learning how to store food properly.
Pricing: Free on both Android and iOS.
ELPRO is a cold chain, room, and equipment monitoring software that offers many solutions to different monitoring needs in the food and healthcare industries. As a food safety app, ELPRO offers temperature and humidity monitoring data loggers to keep track of the temperature and humidity of food products in transit and ensure they are kept within the standards safe for human consumption.
Best For: Monitoring temperature and humidity of food items in transit.
Pricing: Pricing will depend on the organization’s needs. However, The ELPRO Cloud Starter Kit includes a voucher for one year of free use of the ELPRO Cloud monitoring system.
Leafe is a food safety app focused on promoting good hygiene in the kitchen. With Leafe, kitchen managers can onboard new staff through the app and orient them on going paperless by using Leafe’s digital checklists and documents on maintaining good hygiene, the proper hygiene practices and standards to adhere to, and how to do it.
Best For: Kitchen managers who want to go completely paperless for everything.
Pricing: Free for the first 14 days. Paid plans start at £10 per venue per month.
Smart Foodstuff is a home-centered food safety app for helping homemakers manage their food inventory with their smart food containers. Their food containers have built-in sensors in them to ensure only fresh food is cooked and consumed, with their data available in graphs.
Best For: Homemakers and those who bring food items to different places in small quantities.
Pricing: Starts at $14.99 per month.
Controlant is a cold chain solution software that also works as a food safety app. Controlant strives to prevent food from going bad by using automation to monitor and control its temperature and conditions as it is transported.
Best For: Transporting food products over long distances.
Pricing: Dependent on the organization’s needs.
Chomp is a food safety app designed for chefs. With Chomp, chefs can log important data related to their work with the app’s dedicated sections to recording refrigerator temperatures, cleaning and maintenance schedules, pest control, and receiving goods for inventory management. Chomp also has a live audit reporting feature that can be shared with other team members.
Best For: Chefs working in large-scale kitchens.
Pricing: Starts at $75 per month.
The RiskLimiter Inspector Suite is a food safety app that also works as a risk management service. While RiskLimiter primarily works as a food safety audit software by tracking food temperature and conditions, it also records slips, trips, falls, and other accidents and hygiene practices.
Best For: Managing risks in the kitchen.
Safefood 360° is a food safety app that focuses more on ensuring compliance and management. With Safefood 360°, users can monitor every aspect of their food production processes, from dealing with their suppliers to the quality of their food inventories, and their pest control schedules. This food safety app can also help with ensuring compliance with different food safety standards, such as HACCP, and maintaining a Preventive Control Plan (PCP).
Best For: Enterprises.
EdApp by SafetyCulture is a learning management system that contains multiple lessons on food safety, making it a reliable food safety app. The food safety courses EdApp offers cover food contamination, hazards, and food hygiene standards.
Best For: All professionals or homemakers that want to learn more about food safety.
Pricing: Free plan available with limited features. Paid plans start at $1.95 per user per month.
Housekeeping can be done on either a homemaking and corporate or business level, but for both kinds, food safety is something to always be considered. For housekeeping in hotels and other hospitality establishments, food safety is essential in ensuring all food prepared and served meet both internal and local health standards. This includes food storage and inventory management, temperature, preparation, and serving. A food safety app can assist managers and chefs by helping them track all these details down and refer to them later as they go along with their daily tasks.
A food safety app can also be of great help to homemakers for almost the same reasons. Studies show that at home, food safety is not often given importance—when it should always be considered when managing one’s home. Food safety mismanagement can lead to food spoilage and improper cooking practices, which also leads to multiple illnesses throughout the year. Using a food safety app can then help mitigate or lessen this risk by tracking and recording the ingredients used for a meal, the shelf lives of food products, the nutritional details of ingredients and meals in storage, and the temperature they are stored at. In some cases, a food safety app can also contain reminders and details on proper food storage and preparation, which can be helpful. This way, homemakers can save time on food storage and preparation, allotting more time for other housekeeping tasks.
Another good way to use food safety apps is to help with compliance. With a food safety app, you can say goodbye to the old days of diving through piles of paperwork when presenting documentation evidence to food safety auditors. To ensure that food is safe, hygienic, and of adequate quality, many of the world’s leading food chain operators and industries strive to earn food safety certifications (e.g. HACCP, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, GMP, FSMA, BRC, and SQF) through regular, stringent third-party food certification audits. Regular audits ensure an organization’s compliance with international food standards and regulations.
For consumers, food safety certificates prove that businesses adhere to the laws and best practices that protect them from food-borne illnesses and other adverse health effects. For businesses, on the other hand, certifications protect them from potential financial losses, lawsuits, and closure.
Internal food safety audit programs help food manufacturers, suppliers, and service firms prepare the necessary documentation evidence for certification audits; however, many audit programs are still paper-driven. This method makes it arduous for food safety auditors and businesses for a number of reasons, namely:
With a food safety app and a food safety compliance software, businesses can do away with paper checklists and modernize their compliance programs. A food safety app can be the “sixth sense” that empowers safety inspectors to monitor, predict, and analyze what’s happening in their operations with a system that makes internal compliance functions more efficient, sustainable, and productive.
Roselin Manawis
Roselin Manawis is a content writer and researcher for SafetyCulture. She has experience in news writing and content marketing across different fields of discipline. Her background in Communication Arts enables her to leverage multimedia and improve the quality of her work. She also contributed as a research assistant for an international study and as a co-author for two books in 2020. With her informative articles, she aims to ignite digital transformation in workplaces around the world.
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