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Food-Chain Statistical Services
The SARDI Food Safety Research Program provides specialist risk assessment and food safety research capability applicable to all commodities and industry sectors. Food-Chain Statistical Services form an integral part of the capabilities within the program by providing expert statistical knowledge in food related industries.
The program aims to help clients:
- understand and improve their processes
- meet their public health obligations
- improve market access
through independent, rigorous and appropriate statistical advice and high quality statistical training.
Our vision is to be the statistical consultancy and training provider of choice in food and food related industries.
What is Statistics?
Statistics is concerned with the collection and analysis of data, through experiments and surveys, to help technical and management staff make informed and scientifically valid decisions.
How can Statistics help you?
Useful and informative data can be collected in a cost-effective way when statistical principles are observed.
The use of appropriate graphical and statistical methods ensures valuable and practical information is extracted from this data.
Areas where we can help
- Acceptance sampling plans
- Market surveillance programs
- Statistical Process Control
- Experimental designs for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) validation
- Process investigation and validation
- Review of technical reports to assess appropriateness, representativeness and rigour of data
- Statistical training to build in-house capability
Application Areas provides further details about the statistical services that can be provided.
Activities
The following is a list of some past and present projects that Food-Chain Statistical Services has been involved in.
- Design and analysis of industry food safety baseline survey
- Risk factor analysis of animal characteristics and dressing procedures with respect to carcase hygiene
- Process modelling to inform sampling requirements
- Statistical design and analysis to validate control procedures
- Evaluation of the sensitivity of sampling protocols
- Preparation of sampling frameworks for export certification
- Data evaluation for risk modelling purposes
- Preparation of course 'Design and Interpretation of Food Safety Sampling Plans'
Enquiries to:
Dr Andreas Kiermeier
SARDI Food Safety Research Program
Email andreas.kiermeier@sa.gov.au
Phone: +61 8 8207 7884
Fax +61 8 8207 7854
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