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Remote Internal audits and independent review by our food safety consultants
The current lockdown on us all, imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, has meant that some food businesses are short staffed and may be concentrating on other priorities, namely keeping…
Remote assessment of compliance to food safety and GFSI Standards
One of the few positive things to have come out of the COVID-19 crisis is that companies have begun to explore, perhaps more deeply than ever, the concept of effective…
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…
BRC Global Standards Standard for Packaging Materials Issue 6 – Key Changes
We are just under three months away from the start of audits to Issue 6 of the BRC Global Standards Standard for Packaging Materials Issue 6. In this first blog…
Food Hygiene Rating – Shocking statistics reveal failing restaurant standards
The Times has reported on the results of a recent investigation on failing restaurant food hygiene. 15,000 restaurants and food outlets across the UK have a “failing food hygiene rating”….
Low food hygiene ratings – why do restaurants fail?
You only have to search through online media to discover story after story about zero food hygiene ratings. To prove the point, here’s an article relating to zero rated Birmingham…
Food Hygiene Rating – Failing restaurants
The Times has reported on the results of a recent investigation on failing restaurant food hygiene ratings. 15,000 restaurants and food outlets across the UK were given a failing food…
Food Hygiene Rating should influence where we choose to eat out!
Public perception of food hygiene Gone are the days when we would select a place to eat based purely on cost and perhaps what our neighbour or friends told us…
Is HACCP disappearing from ISO 22000:2018?
Recent sources on a certain well-known business based social media site have suggested that HACCP is disappearing, and ISO is the way to go – this almost certainly being a…