Prepacked food for direct sale – allergen information
There is just over one year now before the changes to the FIR take effect, requiring that prepacked food for direct sale (PPDS) be labelled with the name of food…
A message on the current COVID-19 pandemic.
I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you what we are doing in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our consultants are specialist food safety consultants and consequently are very…
Food Safety – the missing link
HACCP International spoke very successfully at the recent BRC Global Standards Global Conference in London to introduce the certification of the food safety status of equipment, materials and services sold…
Co-operative Consortium announced
MQM Consulting is absolutely delighted to announce that it has joined a Consortium of like minded professional organisation providing services to the food and related industries. The Consortium was set…
New EU Food Labelling Regulations
The UK Food Standards Agency reports that the new Food Information Regulation has been published by the EU. This has been designed to make labelling clearer to the consumer. Most…
Our congratulations to CW Contractors and their contracted catering facilities, who, for their first hygiene audits ever, achieved a mixture of silver and bronze level awards to the MQM Food…
The Food Standards Agency releases a recall notice concerning some ready-to-eat foods produced in unapproved premises, which you can read in full here. What does this mean? Well it means…
Best before, Use By and Display Until dates
I would not be surprised if the average consumer was left even more confused by the media, including BBC Breakfast this morning. Even the Freesat “text” service seemed to indicate…
A new BRC Global Standards consultant and hygiene auditor
We are very pleased to announce that we have been joined by Richard Smerdon, a Quality Assurance professional of many years experience and with a previous position at Silver Spring…