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Burton Software Icicle Profiled in Canadian Jewish News to Achieve Kosher Certification

Burton Software Icicle Profiled in Canadian Jewish News to Achieve Kosher Certification

 

Richmond, BC -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/09/2013 -- The current issue of Canadian Jewish News featured Burton Software, (http://www.burtonsoftware.com) the maker of Icicle, the affordable cloud-based solution to improve food safety. Lauren Kramer, Pacific Correspondent for Canadian Jewish News reported that the Vancouver-based agency, Kosher Check is expanding its requirements for kosher certification to include food safety standards beyond the minimum regulations laid out by Canada’s Food Inspection Agency.

Kosher Check certifies some 14,000 products, with 2,000 of them manufactured and certified in Asia. Obtaining the extra level of food safety certification is not necessarily all that complicated for food manufacturers, thanks to Icicle, cloud-based software created by Burton Software in Richmond, B.C. Companies pay to subscribe to the software, enter their ingredient lists and are given data on what they have to do to achieve kosher certification and HACCP certification. The software saves a massive amount of time in the documentation required to obtain HACCP.

According to Steve Burton, “It is with great pleasure that Burton Software, makers of Icicle, entered into a strategic partnership which unites Icicle's technology with Kosher food safety under a single umbrella that's easy to manage. ” (http://www.burtonsoftware.com/Partner/KosherCheck)

Kosher Check is insisting that present and future clients adhere to advanced food safety protocols such as Canada’s Hazard Awareness Critical Control Points (HACCP), British Retail Consortium standards (BRC), Safe Quality Foods (SQF), the Foundation for Food Safety Certification (FSSC), among others. “We feel customers have a right to know that their food is safe,” says Rabbi Avraham Feigelstock, who sits on the Vancouver Rabbinical Court. What’s more, the market is demanding additional levels of food safety inspection, he adds, with Europe being way ahead of North America.

The Canadian Jewish News (CJN) is Canada's largest weekly Jewish newspaper. It is an independent, award-winning community newspaper that prides itself on being a forum for diverse points of view on subjects of interest and relevance to the Jewish community. With an audited circulation of around 40,000, The CJN is read by more than 100,000 people each week.

About Icicle
Icicle is the HACCP solution that improves the quality and safety of products by developing tools that manage food safety plans, document procedures, and carry out inspections. Icicle provides the technology necessary to collect the required data and then automatically generates food safety plans. Changes to individual ingredients, materials, processes or packaging are automatically propagated throughout the system, insuring that plans are kept current across product lines and plants.

Follow Burton Software on Twitter@icicleBsafe.

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