Progress report

ENGLISH 214 SOURCE EVALUATION #

NAME: CLASS ID: _______________________

REPORT TITLE: Protect the food supply chain.

1. THE SOURCE

How long is your source? 3 pages

How did you find the source? I typed in “supply chain management articles “in Google search engine. This article was the first in the list.

Write a complete APA reference for your source:

John, G., Jeffrey, L. & Mark, G. (December/January, 2008). Protect the food supply chain.

Retrieved from http://www.foodquality.com/details/article/814619/Protect_the_Food_Supply_Chain.html?tzcheck=1

2. SUMMARY OF THE SOURCE

This article talks about the state of food safety for the past one year and according to the article the state was not good. It explains that there was a number of high profile recalls traced to tainted imports of ingredients and seafood that was contaminated. Domestically produced vegetables and ground beef was contaminated by the e coli bacteria. Consumer items that had been imported such as toothpaste and toys were recalled.

These food recalls were linked to quality and safety problems in the supply chain and the attention of the media was focused mostly on the international supply. Despite imported food offering benefits to both the processor and the consumer, the global supply chain adds complexity to the already existing food logistics, quality and safety.

3. EVALUATION:

This article is relevant to my report in that it discusses in details about food safety and quality and that is the reason as to why I chose it. It contains information about food logistics, quality and safety. It has information about food products that were recalled as a result of quality and safety problems and this information fits well with my report’s background segment. The authors are all members of the American society for quality’s food, cosmetic and drug division. The article’s level can be well understood by an average person. Despite the article being 6years old, it has information that can be related to today as food safety is still a problem. John is a food safety consultant at Surak and associates, Jeffrey a vice president of market development at northwest analytical Inc and mark a vice president of the supply chain office products division at Newell Rubbermaid. They are all very knowledgeable about this subject.