FOOD INDUSTRY WORKERS’ ATTITUDES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FACTORS AFFECTING FOODSTUFF QUALITY MANAGAMENT

The food industry is faced with several challenges at the same time: to supply safe and affordable foodstuff in sufficient quantity; to provide products in conditions where demand surpasses the human population growth; to operate in circumstances of ever-increasing competition; to protect the environment and respond to the population’s public health concerns. An organization’s success depends on the knowledge, skills, creativity and motivation of the company’s workers and partners. Focus on its employees enables a company’s development and improvement, whereas business ethics ensures public health and safety protection, environmental protection and life quality improvement. The company management’s responsibility lies foremost in education, worker training and development, thus enabling a direct and indirect influence on the foodstuff quality and satisfying consumer requests in terms of foodstuff quality characteristics.