Homenews

  • RQA will be exhibiting at The Proactive Food Safety Conference, September 18th 2019

    • August 14, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Defence, Food integrity, Food Safety, Food Safety Culture, Product Recall
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    Being held on the 18th September 2019, this year’s Proactive Food Safety Conference’s main theme is preventing food fraud where we will be exhibiting and be on hand to answers all your food safety questions and more.

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  • FDA issues Foreign Supplier Verification Program alert

    • August 13, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Defence, Food integrity, Food Safety, RQA Group
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  • Never Events – The Recall Stats

    • August 5, 2019
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: crisis management, Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, RQA Group
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  • Plan | Train | Test

    • July 22, 2019
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, RQA Group
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    Product Recall

    With recalls on the rise and the impact of a recall being very serious, both financially and in terms of brand reputation, are you recall ready? RQA as product recall experts, with experience of well over a thousand product incidents, recommend our industry best practice, Plan | Train | Test approach to recall management.

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  • Food Integrity and Food Safety Culture

    • July 9, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Defence, Food integrity, Food Safety Culture, RQA Group, Training
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    Food Safety Culture and Food Integrity – two hot topics in the industry. Our article aims to clarify the terms and provide some guidance on how to go about implementing them, along with our top ten tips for getting started.

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  • UN World Food Safety Day 2019

    • June 12, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: BRC, Food Defence, Food Safety, HACCP, International, RQA Group, TACCP, Training
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    The first-ever United Nations World Food Safety Day took place on 7 June 2019 under the theme “Food Safety, everyone’s business”.

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  • Unusual Product Recalls

    • June 10, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, RQA Group
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    A seemingly nutty recall, honey containing Viagra and dangerous coolers and among our collection of unusual recalls this month.

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  • EU Food Fraud Network Report 2018

    • June 10, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Food Defence, Supply Chain Risk Management, TACCP, Training, VACCP
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    The recently published report from the EU Food Fraud Network shows a significant increase in the number of reported cases over the last 2 years. Click below to read more.

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  • “Never Events” and Product Recalls

    • June 10, 2019
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Crisis Communications, crisis management, Insurance, Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, RQA Group
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    Our MD, Vince Shiers, shares his thoughts on implementing the “Never Event” principle from the healthcare industry and applying it to product recalls in food manufacturing.

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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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