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  • Foreign Bodies – Reducing Recalls

    • March 20, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: BRC, Food Defence, HACCP, Product Recall, RASFF
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    Failure to manage foreign bodies can be costly if it results in a recall, not to mention being unpleasant and the damage it could do to your brand.  With the EU and FDA reporting an increase in foreign body alerts we’ve put together a useful report on the different types of contamination, alert figures from the EU and FDA, and our “Top 10 Measures To Reduce Foreign Body Contamination”.  Click the link below to find out more.

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  • RQA Insight – A snapshot of the Singapore food industry

    • February 13, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: BRC, Food Defence, Food Safety, HACCP, RQA Group
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    If you’ve ever wondered what food safety is like in Singapore, then read on.   We asked one of our consultants, Lileen, to provide some insight into the local food industry.

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  • RQA – Food Threats Guide

    • December 19, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Defence, Food Safety, HACCP, Product Recall, RQA Group, TACCP
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    There are so many terms that relate to similar risks with food contamination and adulteration and it can get very confusing!  This guide tries to provide clarity – click the link below to find out more.

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  • Focus on Food Fraud

    • April 18, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Defence
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    Food Fraud is a hot topic in the food industry

    Food Fraud Food Fraud is a hot topic in the food industry at the moment, and there have been several conferences held on the subject that RQA have attended recently. Here are some key points that we took away from these events. There still seems to be some disagreement over an exact definition of food

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  • Malicious Tampering – Are your systems robust?

    • February 13, 2017
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Food Defence, Food Safety, HACCP, Product Recall, RQA Group, TACCP
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    Food Safety - Malicious Tampering – Are your systems robust?

    Malicious tampering is not a common occurrence but over the years there have been many instances where products have been deliberately contaminated, some causing, or having the potential to cause, death or serious injury. One key example is the Tylenol case in 1982 where the pain-killers were replaced with tablets laced with cyanide, which resulted

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  • Food Crime & Threat Levels

    • July 18, 2016
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Food Defence, Food Safety, RQA Group
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    Supply chain vulnerability, threat assessments (TACCP) and food defence

    Supply chain vulnerability, threat assessments (TACCP) and food defence all have top priority in today’s food manufacturing sector. It is therefore very interesting to see the first “Food Crime & Annual Strategic Assessment” report that was published in the UK in March 2016. This synopsis has been compiled from that report and focuses on specific

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  • Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Update

    • July 18, 2016
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Food Defence, Food Safety
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    Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

    Foodborne illness occurs across the globe and our global food supply is open for improvement. This can be demonstrated in the news of recent outbreaks and recalls of prepackaged foods and other foods, such as nuts and spinach.

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  • Food Defence in BRC, IFS and SQF

    • January 22, 2016
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Food Defence, TACCP
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    Food Defence in BRC, IFS and SQF

    As mentioned in the RQA newsletter last month, the BRC Food standard, Issue 7 mentions risk 97 times. In contrasts, the word threat is only present once; in the context of historical and developing threats to the supply chain.

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