Module 4 · Chapter 8
The Recall
When a food company finds a dangerous test result, the board must decide fast whether to recall. This chapter shows how bad news reaches the board, how it meets at once, and what it must weigh.
In this chapter
- Why nobody may hold a bad test result, even for a retest
- How the board meets on a day's notice, and how a worker who speaks up is protected
- What the directors must weigh, and how the record shows they did
8.1Recalls at board level in one paragraph
A voluntary recall takes a product back from shops and from the customers who bought it, before anyone orders the company to. In a food business it is one of the hardest decisions there is. The charter keeps it for the board (Schedule A, item 17).
The rules in this chapter all serve that decision. One gets a bad result to the right people the same day. Another lets the board meet at once, and a third keeps a record of who decided what.
Key point
A recall is the board's decision. The rules get the news to the board in time to make it, and leave a record that it was made properly.
Also in this chapter
- From a bad result to a board decision
- Why nobody may hold a bad result
- Speaking up, and the law that protects it
- Calling the board on a day's notice
- Recall now or retest first: what the duties ask
- The Decision Log: who decided what, and when
- Your job
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