With customer satisfaction and the need to avoid costly recalls being perhaps more important than ever, quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) testing continue to be crucial in the dairy production process. These tests confirm any products leaving a dairy plant meet the company’s high-quality standards and stringent food safety requirements.

This month, Dairy Foods tackles four important QA and QC topics: new technologies, equipment purchase advice, data management and training best practices. Providing this information are executives from three suppliers: Tyson Rowland, business unit manager for food, New Castle, Del.-based BUCHI Corp.; Sarah Hammond, marketing manager for Sarasota, Fla.-based MoistTech Corp; and Wopke Beukema, senior manager of research and development, applied and food markets, Waltham, Mass.-based PerkinElmer Inc.