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BRC Global Standards Issue 6 Guidance – Part 6 – Site Standards
This time around we look at some of the major changes to the Site Standards Section. This change was driven by the need to ensure that certification bodies spend more…
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…
SALSA – the alternative choice for certification
We are quite often asked by SME food businesses whether SALSA (Safe and Local Supplier Approval) is a viable alternative to a more in depth standard such as the BRC…
BRC Global Standards Issue 6 Guidance – Part 5 – Auditing & Corrective Actions
Last time we looked at the requirements for HACCP within Issue 6 of the BRC Global Standards Global Standard for Food Safety. In these notes we begin to look at…
What an interesting article in the European Cleaning Journal that reports on a study about poor hand hygiene within healthcare workers who wear gloves! This hazard is something also recognised…
Flush the toilet with the lid down!
To all the men of this world who moan about the ladies who tell us to keep the toilet lid down – they are, and have always been right of…
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…
No confirmed cause of Clostridium botulinum outbreak
Food Quality News reports that a spokesperson from the Food Standards Agency has said that no confirmed cause of the family outbreak from the Lloyd Grossman Korma sauce, produced by…
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…