Hormel_Foods

Hormel Foods Hormel Foods Corporation is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer-branded meat and food products. Hormel commands a tremendous amount of respect and its products are highly regarded for quality, taste, and nutrition by consumers, grocers, foodservice and industrial customers alike. To this end, it is extremely important for Hormel to ensure their customers always receive a superior and safe product. The retort (cook) process at Hormel is the most important process in their business of food manufacturing. If the cook process is completed correctly, all bacteria can be killed. However, if any detail is overlooked or incorrect, the product may have to either be re-cooked or destroyed, which is extremely costly. It is extremely important to maintain accurate workplace records and to take corrective action immediately in response to out-of-specification results or non-compliance. Any corrective action required needs to be reported and/or recorded. In rare circumstances when mistakes are made, a process needs to be in place whereby mistakes are caught within moments of being made. In order to alleviate as many mistakes as possible and ensure food safety, some equipment must be monitored at all times to confirm operating condition and status as hormel, retort, process, cook, record, operator, must, time, records, product, vent, usda, important, hormel, food, each, chart, watch, temperature, required, pressure, out, mistakes, extremely, ensure, ended, cooking, actually, accurate, written, within, validate, valid, safety, properly, products