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  • Vince Shiers, MD of RQA Group, Calls for Free Access to Recall Code of Practice

    • May 23, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Product Recall, RQA Group
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    Calls for Free Access to Recall Code of Practice

    Product Recall Code of Practice – PAS 7100. We are calling for this to be made freely available without charge or copyright restrictions. Time to contact the UK Government… Following the launch of the “Publicly Available Specification” or Code of Practice on Product Recalls, whose development was sponsored by the UK Government, we published a short review

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  • RQA MD Features in New Supply Chain Risk Management Book

    • May 17, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Risk Assessment, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Risk Management
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    New Supply Chain Risk Management Book

    John Manners Bell invited Vince Shiers, Managing Director of RQA Group, to contribute to sections on food supply chain vulnerability in his book, Supply Chain Risk Management (2nd Ed).  John’s book which has just been published includes many topics relevant to supply chain risk of any industry.  Key topics include: supply chain resilience, focus on

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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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  • Unusual Recalls

    • April 17, 2018
    • Posted by: Emma Barnett
    • Category: Product Recall
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    Unusual Recalls - Lethal fish

    Below you will find our round up of the weird and wonderful recalls we have come across recently: Lethal fish makes it through to consumers: A Japanese city had to issue an emergency warning to consumers to prevent people from consuming a type of pufferfish known as Fugu after poisonous parts of the fish were

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  • We’re Recruiting – Full Time Consultant

    • April 13, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: recruitment, RQA Group
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    Due to recent business growth, RQA are recruiting a new full-time consultant. We are looking for someone with food & drink industry experience, capable of carrying out food safety audits, crisis management consultancy and deliver training in topics such as food defence, supply chain risk management, and product recall. Click here for the full job

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  • Product Recall Code Launched for Consumer Products

    • March 9, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Product Recall
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    Calls for Free Access to Recall Code of Practice

    The UK government’s new Office for Product Safety and Standards has launched the first code of Practice (PAS 7100) for product safety related recalls. “Code of practice on consumer product safety related recalls and other corrective actions” This new code of practice  is targeted at two audiences: Businesses producing, importing and distributing non-food consumer products

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  • RQA Appointed as Recall Consultants to Tokio Marine Kiln

    • February 5, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Uncategorized
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    RQA Appointed as Recall Consultants to Tokio Marine Kiln

    We are very pleased to announce that Tokio Marine Kiln, a leading international insurer, has appointed RQA Group as its product recall crisis consultants. Through this relationship, RQA are providing 24/7 incident support and pre-incident risk improvement services to Tokio Marine Kiln’s product recall insurance clients. Michael Crabtree, Underwriter, Tokio Marine Kiln said “We have

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  • RQA Group’s World of Recall

    • January 30, 2018
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Uncategorized
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    RQA Group - World of Product Recall

    RQA has just launched a simple, interactive guide to the complex world of product recall. Whether you need to know who to contact in the event of a recall, want to estimate how much a recall could cost you or would like to know which brokers specialise in recall insurance, RQA’s World of Recall can

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  • Consumer Product Recalls – The Facts Behind the Headlines

    • November 30, 2017
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Product Recall, Risk Assessment, RQA Group
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    Extensive range of auditing, consultancy and training

    There seem to be an increasing number of consumer product recalls being reported in the media and also closer scrutiny of the actions taken by companies during a product recall. RQA decided to crunch the numbers and see if there really are more recalls happening in this area by comparing data from 2016 and 2017.

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  • Unusual Recalls December 2017

    • November 30, 2017
    • Posted by: Nick Edwards
    • Category: Product Recall, RQA Group
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    Unusual Recalls - New York firm Death Wish Coffee has recalled a cold coffee range after tests showed there was potential for the drink to contain a deadly toxin

    Below you will find our round up of the weird and wonderful recalls we have come across recently: A coffee called Death Wish, which might live up to its name: New York firm Death Wish Coffee has recalled a cold coffee range after tests showed there was potential for the drink to contain a deadly

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