Homenews

  • Unusual Product Recalls

    • December 4, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, RQA Group
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    An exploding toilet and a swimming costume that can’t get wet are among the more unusual recalls we’ve come across recently. Click below to find out more.

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  • BRC Packaging Issue 6 – Draft consultation available for input

    • November 28, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: BRC, Food Safety, RQA Group, Training
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    Consultation is invited on the new issue of “The BRC Global Standard for Packaging and Packaging Materials”. The deadline for comments is on 15 December 2018. The new standard will be issued in 2019 with the first audits to Issue 6 commencing in February 2020. Click the link below to find out more.

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  • RQA Report featured in Food Manufacture

    • November 22, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Uncategorized
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    Our recent report on the impact of recall on share price has been featured in Food Manufacture’s Data Dashboard click here to view it. To view the full report click here RQA can help you with your Product Recall plans and provide training and mock recall exercises. Drop us an email or give us a call on +44

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  • Food poisoning recalls – on the rise in 2018?

    • November 15, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Safety, HACCP, Product Recall, RQA Group, Training
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    With food poisoning related recalls regularly grabbing the headlines this year we decided to take a closer look at the issues, the recall numbers, possible causes and offer some solutions to help you and your business avoid these issues. Click below to find out more.

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  • RQA’s best practice guidance on consumer product safety

    • October 23, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: PAS 7100, Product Recall, RAPEX, RQA Group
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    In light of the EU’s upcoming International Product Safety Week being held in mid-November, we decided to take another look at the latest code of practice from the UK Government on product safety – please click below to read more.

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  • FSA Publishes Local Authority Food Law Enforcement Information

    • October 5, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: BRC, Food Safety, HACCP, RQA Group
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    On September 18 2018 The UK Food Standards Agency published its “Annual report on local authority food law enforcement”.  To read the report and some of the more interesting figures we picked up on click the link below.

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  • The European Commission publishes the 2017 Annual RASFF Report

    • October 1, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Safety, Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, RQA Group
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    The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) Annual Report has just been published, and shows that a total of 3832 notifications of food or feed risks were reported to the European Commission in 2017…

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  • Impact of Product Recall on Share Price – RQA Report

    • September 24, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Consulting, crisis management, Economics, Finance & accounting, Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, Risk Assessment, RQA Group
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    RQA has studied a number of product recalls carried out by companies that are publicly listed in order to understand the impact of a recall on their share price….

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  • US food facilities have until the end of the year to renew FDA registration or risk cancellation

    • September 18, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Safety, Uncategorized
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    Any facility that markets food for consumption in the US has between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2018, to renew its U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ….

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  • Brexit – FSA consultation on proposed changes to the EU Health and Identification Markings

    • September 13, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Safety, HACCP, Training
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    When the UK leaves the EU, the letters ‘EU’ or ‘EC’ within the current marks will no longer be permitted.   To provide for this change ….

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