Let's forget about senior leaders, management, and executive teams for the moment. What does it take to have an extremely effective Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) technician team on the production floor?

This article shares practiced perspective on "what it takes." Attributes for success are identified and explained. How they are integrated within an FSQA team on the floor will go a long way to galvanizing the success of that team. For food and beverage companies, "success" means effective risk identification and management, protection of public health, reduced costs of poor quality, and the manufacture and sale of high-quality food and beverage ingredients and products.