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BRC Global Standards

BRC Global Standards Issue 6 Guidance – Part 4 – HACCP Plan

Continuing our guidance for those trying to upgrade their systems to be compliant with the new Issue 6 of the BRC Global Standards Global Standard for Food Safety The HACCP…

Food Hygiene

Milan HOST exhibition

The HOST exhibition last week was simply huge! 18 halls of equipment for catering and hospitality and several hundred exhibitors. It was great to see such activity and such a…

Announcements

Another unapproved premises.

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…

BRC Global Standards

BRC Global Standards Issue 6 Guidance – Part 3 – HACCP

Following our last post we continue our guidance on implementing a BRC Global Standards Global Standard Issue 6 compliant HACCP Plan.   Section 2.3 Describing the Product I’m often asked…

Food Hygiene

Vomit polished cutlery in New York!!

The scene: Late evening – a pub / restaurant in New York. A drunken man vomits into a glass which spills onto the table. A waiter takes off the table…

Food Safety News

FSA recall – product packaged in unapproved premises

This product recall has highlighted the importance of the mandatory requirement to seek premises approval before any food handling commences. The current EU Food hygiene regulations (853/2004) are quite clear on this….

BRC Global Standards

BRC Global Standards Issue 6 Guidance – Part 2 – HACCP

HACCP Last time we covered the extra requirements (over Issue 5) for section 1 – Senior Management Commitment This time we shall start to look at the BRC Global Standards…

BRC Global Standards

A good cleaning article

Well done to Vermop! The German cleaning equipment company has released an excellent guide in European Cleaning Journal. It points out some of the fundamental assumptions that can be made…

General

The anti food legislation congresswoman

What an interesting but alarming article in the Think Progress Economy newsletter. A congresswomen who would like to “do away” with food safety legislation! Legislation has not been designed to…