By Gill Dando, RQA Group Technical Director and Dr. Nicola Wilson, RQA Principal Consultant Changes to food safety legislation can sometimes create more noise than clarity, particularly when they relate to a pathogen as serious as Listeria monocytogenes. The amendment to Regulation 2073/2005 is a good example. For some businesses, the headline may sound … Read more
The release of the latest BRCGS annual report has prompted the usual interest in the most common food safety non-conformances[1]. These reports are useful because they give us a view of what auditors are finding across a very large number of certified sites. They also give manufacturers, retailers, brand owners and insurers an opportunity to … Read more
By Vince Shiers – Managing Director. OK, so many of us have seen the film “Titanic,” or even the older film, “A Night to Remember.” We have also seen documentaries about the Titanic disaster. But I am probably in a pretty small group of living people who have read the transcriptions of the official British … Read more