The management systems community
5th Jan 2011 by Alex Briggs
According to the latest ISO survey, ISO 22000 (Food Safety Management System Standard) certification is up 70% year on year, with ISO/IEC 27001 (IT Security Management System Standard) certification being up by 40% in 2009 as compared to 2008.
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Event: 7th Dec 2010 – 8th Dec 2010
The ‘Sustainable Agricultural Partnerships Summit’, will focus specifically on collaboration and partnerships between key stakeholders in the agricultural community. To encourage this process, and create a dialogue between farmers and the food industry on sustainability issues.
21st Aug 2009 by Alex Briggs
As of last Monday, August 17th, Tesco has begun labelling the carbon footprint of a pint of milk.
Tesco Community and Government Director, David North said:
We think carbon labels on milk can play a great part in raising awareness and helping customers navigate the new carbon currency.
Helping to raise awareness of climate change and the carbon impact of products, it is a major milestone in the company’s pledge to have footprinted 500 products by the end of the year.
16th Jun 2009 by Alex Briggs
ISO 14001, the environmental management systems standard, is increasingly being seen as a tool to help organisations engage with their stakeholders.
VWS has been working since 2006 with a project team drawn from all of the their divisions to implement ISO 14001 and achieve certification. This was awarded following a detailed audit of all five of VWS’s UK sites by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance (LRQA).
17th Mar 2009 by Alex Briggs
Each year, about 76 million people in the United States are sickened by contaminated food, hundreds of thousands are hospitalized and about 5,000 die, public health experts estimate.
US President Barack Obama has named a new FDA head and deputy, as well as outlined budgetary plans that will place Food Safety at the top of the agenda.
4th Mar 2009 by Cor Groenveld
ISO 22005 is the new international standard for traceability in the food and feed supply chain. Traceability is a must throughout the whole feed and food supply chain, in particular as a part of the emergency management process when quality or food safety problems with raw materials or finished products occur. When an organisation is able to rapidly trace back ingredients or finished products, risks and costs involved with quality and food safety defects will be reduced. The standard is part of the ISO 22000 family and it provides tools to implement an effective traceability system as part of a food safety / quality management system.
19th Jan 2009 by Alex Briggs
Following on from the Climate deliberations at Poznan, Keith Jones of CropLife International talks about the contribution of agriculture to climate change mitigation and need to achieve better collaboration among all food chain participants to achieve ever more sustainable productivity.
31st Aug 2007
This episode is an interview with the Policy Manager at the Soil Association, Gundula Azeez and focuses on organic farming, described by Wikipedia as “a form of agriculture which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, plant growth regulators, and livestock feed additives.”
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