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Even though Christmas itself is nearly a month and a half away the Food Standards Agency, usefully, is issuing the first warnings. Read them here and don’t be sick this…
The Hygiene Council have issued some shocking facts from a swabbing study of 140 homes in seven countries in a recent report on their website. The Hygiene Council is a…
Major US recall of hard boiled eggs
The FDA has reported a major recall of specific lot dates of hard cooked eggs in brine, sold to distributors and manufacturers, after laboratory tests confirmed the presence of Listeria…
BRC Global Standards Global Food Safety Standard Issue 6 Guidelines
Users of the BRC Global Standards Global Standard for Food Safety, now in its 6th issue, will be very pleased to note the publication of the official guidelines from TSO online….
The EFSA update reports that the Salmonella stanley outbreak affecting several EU countries is quite possibly linked to the turkey production chain, but that other meat sources cannot be ruled…
Salmonella in cantaloupe melons
Following the earlier outbreak from Listeria in cantaloupe melons there is now an outbreak from Salmonella typhimurium also linked to cantaloupe melon according to a report in Just-Food. This has…
BRC Global Standards Issue 6 Guidance – Part 8 – Process Control
Section 6 – Process Control Control of operations (6.1) has been reworded to ensure that the production process is managed through recipes and process specifications to control not only product…
Food Safety during the Olympics
With the Olympics just around the corner the Food Standards Agency have launched a campaign and some useful sources of information about their role and the role of caterers to…
BRC Global Standards Issue 6 Guidance – Part 7 – Product Control
For this post we will look at the requirements and changes within section 5 of Issue 6 of the BRC Global Standards Global Food Safety Standard. Section 5 – Product…