Homenews

  • 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 White Paper

    • 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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  • Unusual Product Recalls from RQA Group

    • August 30, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, RQA Group
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    Image of Apricot Kernels RQA Group Product Recall

    A healthy food with deadly consequences and spiders causing chaos are among some of the unusual product recalls we’ve found this time around ….

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  • Microbiological Contamination Recall Article Features RQA MD

    • August 15, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Food Safety, HACCP, Laboratory Testing, Product Recall, Product Recall Planning, RQA Group
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    A recent article published by Strategic Risk on the listeria contamination of frozen vegetables and the growing number of serious pathogenic micro-organism related recalls features comments from RQA’s Managing Director, Vince Shiers. Click here to go to the article. For more information on our Food Safety Training click here or contact us on contact@rqa-group.com or call

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  • Unusual Product Recalls

    • July 3, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Uncategorized
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    Unusual Automotive recalls

    Once again, here are some of the weird and wonderful product recall related stories we have come across recently: Another automotive recall, but it’s your child’s Porsche this time… A product recall from Porsche immediately makes you think of one of their sports cars but in this case the recall is for a toy car!

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  • Key Upcoming Changes to BRC Food Safety Standard

    • June 21, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Uncategorized
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    British Retail Consortium (BRC) will publish Issue 8 of their Global Standard for Food Safety

    The British Retail Consortium (BRC) will publish Issue 8 of their Global Standard for Food Safety on 1st August with audits commencing on 1 February 2019. Below are some of the key changes between Issue 7 and Issue 8 that we think you should be aware of to help you start to prepare for its

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  • Product Recall Article Features RQA MD, Vince Shiers

    • May 31, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Uncategorized
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    Minimising the risk of supplier-driven recalls

    Food Manufacture has published a very insightful and comprehensive article entitled “Minimising the risk of supplier-driven recalls” which features expert input from RQA’s Managing Director, Vince Shiers. Click here to go to the article.

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