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Food Defence

“Food defence is the effort to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration or tampering” (FDA) FDA has a leading role in a number of food defence initiatives to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration or tampering and to assist facilities to prevent, pre...

Food Safety Culture – What is the purpose of and implications for (EU) 2021/382?

The newly published commission regulation (EU) 2021/382 amending regulation 852/2004 requires all food business operators to establish, maintain and provide evidence of an appropriate food safety culture. This legal requirement is a new departure as culture can be quite a subject...

Uncertainty of a Different Kind….Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Testing Labs

Uncertainty was one word used time and time again during the pandemic. Each of us have different approaches for trying to deal with expected change or apprehension about what lies ahead. I am certainly hopeful of brighter days ahead…This article, written by our Expert Tutor, An...

Top Tips for a Better Virtual Training Experience

After moving from years of classroom based training to the virtual world, our Expert Tutor, Edel Jones asks the question is virtual training here to stay and gives valuable insights and advice on how to make the most of virtual As ISO 22000/2018 defines Risk as ‘The effect of u...

What the Zoom is Virtual Training?? An inside perspective

As I packed away my computer on March 10th last year and headed down the long drive of Citi West hotel, I was pleased to be heading home after a successful 1-day HACCP refresher course. Little did I know that 13 months later, I would not have returned to a venue that I had used f...

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