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MODERN FOOD SAFETY DOES NOT NEED MORE AUDITS.
IT NEEDS BETTER SYSTEM INTELLIGENCE.
This book reveals why certification-driven assurance struggles to keep pace with today’s food systems — and how real-time learning, structured knowledge, and intelligent infrastructure restore control. Moving beyond compliance without abandoning it, the author offers a system- level perspective on resilience, assurance, and governance.
For food safety professionals, regulators, and leaders who sense that the system must evolve — not because it is broken, but because the world has changed.
Cornelis van Elst is a seasoned expert in food safety, automation, and compliance with 25+ years of experience in the field. He combines deep technical knowledge with practical insight into how food companies manage safety and quality in complex, regulated environments.

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Cornelis van Elst — often referred to informally as Cees van Elst — is a seasoned expert in food safety, automation, and compliance with 25+ years of experience in the field. He combines deep technical knowledge with practical insight into how food companies manage safety and quality in complex, regulated environments.(Qassurance) Professional background: Grew up in and began his career around microbiological laboratory environments, developing an early understanding of food safety at the scientific level.(Qassurance) Studied Industrial Engineering & Management Science at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE) with a focus on IT and quality systems — a rare combination that underpins his systems-thinking approach to food safety compliance.(Qassurance) Early in his career at Unilever, he saw the transformative potential of information technology in food safety management and quality systems — a perspective that would shape his later work.(Qassurance) Professional roles & impact: Co-founder of iMIS Food (with Martijn Bartlema) in 2006, building one of the first integrated digital platforms for food safety management that supports real-time assurance, traceability, and knowledge structuring.(Qassurance) Senior consultant, trainer, and international speaker on Food Safety Compliance, regularly presenting at industry events and contributing to best-practice frameworks for compliance beyond traditional audits.(Qassurance) Lead author (and co-author of peer-reviewed work) on integrating learning organization principles, digital infrastructure, and risk resilience in food safety — notably in articles such as “Building Food System Resilience within a Learning Organization.”(Qassurance) Thought leadership: Advocates moving beyond compliance checklists to continuous, real-time systems that support proactive risk management and adaptive learning — a central theme in Real-Time Food Safety Assurance.(SWP) In his work he emphasizes that modern food safety performance relies as much on structured knowledge and feedback loops as it does on traditional standards and audits.(Qassuranc

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Preface 9 About the Author — Ir. Cornelis van Elst 11 Executive Summary 13 Who This Book Is For 17 Overview of the Book 19 Part I How CertIfICatIon BeCame tHe CeIlIng 1. Chasing the Highest Certificate Keeps Companies in Phase 1 27 2. Certification Keeps Companies Stuck in Phase 1 (Because the System Does) 31 3. The Big TIC Phase-1 Trap 35 4. Why Passing Audits Does Not Mean an Organization Is in Control 38 5. Phase 1 Is Necessary — Remaining There Is the Risk 41 Part II food Safety aS a learnIng SyStem 6. Food Safety as a Knowledge-Intensive Function 47 7. Food Safety as a Learning Organization 50 8. Managing the Five Food Safety Knowledge Domains 53 9. Why Knowledge — Not Documentation — Determines Maturity 56 10. From Individual Expertise to Organizational Intelligence 58 11. The Question Every Leadership Team Should Ask 60 Part III Beyond PdCa: SenSe & reSPond 12. PDCA Was Designed for a Slower World 65 13. From PDCA to Sense & Respond 68 14. Why PDCA Costs Become Distorted in the Big TIC Model 71 15. Real-Time Assurance Restores Balance 74 Part IV tHe CollaPSe of dePendenCy modelS 16. Why the Traditional Consultant Model in Food Safety Is Breaking Down 79 17. Stop Paying €1,300 a Day for Dependency 82 18. Good Auditors in a System That Constrains Learning 85 19. The New Audit Reality That Remains Largely Unspoken 88 20. Real-Time Assurance Is Not Anti-Audit 91 Part V InfraStruCture, SoVereIgnty, and g2B modelS 21. From Paper Compliance to Live Assurance 97 22. Real-Time Food Safety Assurance Is No Longer a Vision 101 23. Who Owns the Knowledge Domains Owns the Infrastructure 104 24. Sovereign Real-Time Food Safety Is Ready for G2B Programs 107 25. From €60k to €4k — Why G2B Changes Everything 110 26. Why Emerging Economies Should Skip the Audit Era 113 Part VI aI and SyStem IntellIgenCe 27. AI Will Not Fix Food Safety Without a Knowledge Backbone 119 28. How AI Supervision Becomes Possible 122 Part VII Power, eConomICS, and tHe way forward 29. Why Private Equity Is Attracted to Phase-1 Models 127 30. Why Food Safety Needs Infrastructure — Not Roll-Ups 130 31. We Do Not Need More Certificates — We Need System Intelligence 137 Closing Note — An Epilogue 137 Appendix 1 139 Appendix 2 143 Appendix 3 145 Appendix 4 150 Appendix 5 158 Appendix 6 162 Appendix 7 166 Appendix 8 170

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