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IQUW Appoints RQA Group as Crisis Consultants for Specialty Product Recall Cover
We are very pleased that Property, Commercial and Speciality (re)insurer IQUW has selected RQA Group to be its retained crisis consultants globally for its recently launched Specialty Product Recall cover. To read the full press release from IQUW click below
EC Publishes 2021 “Alert and Cooperation on Food” Report
Today, the European Commission published its 2021 report of the Alert and Cooperation Network which is composed of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), the Administrative Assistance and Cooperation system (AAC) and the Food Fraud Network (FFN). It is designed to facilitate the exchange of information and the cooperation on official controls … Read more
Study on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Product Safety
The UK Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) recently published a report on AI and product safety. This is an in-depth report worthy of a full read. We have extracted some high level points from the report, go to the end for a link to download the full report. Opportunities and benefits The … Read more
Are you ready for a Communications Crisis?
Crisis Communications plans are often drafted and then filed, gathering dust until they are suddenly needed when crisis strikes. But will they be any use at that time? Click below to read our latest article, written by our highly experienced crisis communications consultant. If you would like further information on our crisis communication services click … Read more
FSMA Proposed Rule on Agricultural Water
The proposed FSMA rule was described as a “game changer for the safety of fresh produce” at the recent Food Safety Summit in Chicago by Frank Yiannas (Deputy Commissioner, Food Policy and Response, U.S. FDA). This rule would change the pre-harvest agricultural water requirements for covered produce (other than sprouts). The requirements in this proposed … Read more
EU’s Consumer Product Safety Report 2021 Released
The EU Safety Gate (formerly RAPEX) is the European consumer product safety rapid alert system and they have published their 2021 report. This Rapid Alert System (RAS) ensures that information about dangerous non-food products withdrawn from the market and/or recalled anywhere in Europe is quickly circulated between Member States and the European Commission. In total … Read more
RQA Group’s Product Recall Bulletin
Our highlights and key trends from the Q1 2022 Recall Data We are leading experts in product recall with 25 years of experience and have assisted in well over 1500 real-life product incidents. We have taken all of this knowledge and expertise and used it to put together a concise summary of the latest recall … Read more
Pet Food – Evolving Risks, Supply Chain and Fraud
Click here to download and read this article as a PDF, or read on below Recurring food safety failures and product recalls in the pet food sector emphasise the importance of maintaining effective integrity systems including HACCP and VACCP. This is the same as in the human food sector and these systems help to protect against … Read more
Prevent up to 50% of food recalls – Product Recall Never Events
In 2019 we applied the Never Events principle from the health care industry to food product recalls. Essentially, we identified a significant proportion of product recalls that should never happen. For example, where the product had been put in the wrong packaging or the incorrect label had been applied. These are cases where product recalls … Read more