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Assurance

Words into Actions – moving from inspections to process based Assessments

– 18th Feb 2010

ISO 22000, PAS 220 and FSSC 22000 are changing the world of Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) assessments.

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Cor Groenveld Global Food Safety Podcast

– 8th Feb 2010 by Alex Briggs

Cor Groenveld, LRQA’s global food safety expert, delivered a presentation at the Washington D.C. Global Food Safety Conference. His presentation on the Food Supply Chain was one of the highlights of the world’s largest food safety conference.
Cor is also the chairman of the Foundation for Food Safety Certification, the owners of FSSC 22000.

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LRQA Food Assurance Podcast - Day Two -Global Food Safety Conference

– 4th Feb 2010 by Alex Briggs

On day two of the Global Food Safety Conference in Washington, D.C., we talked to Vel Pillay, LRQA’s food safety expert for the Americas. Vel talked about the road that LRQA has taken to FSSC 22000 and what lies ahead. Visit our food blog throughout the month of February for more information from the event.

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Global Food Safety Conference - live on Day one - podcast

– 3rd Feb 2010 by Alex Briggs

The Global Food Safety Conference is the world’s leading global food sector event. With over 700 delegates attending the Washington D.C. event, food safety issues are being addressed at the highest levels.
We are live at the event, with daily blogs, podcasts and news stories.

On day one, we interviewed Cor Groenveld, LRQA’s leading global food sector expert, Andrew Smith, LRQA’s Senior Vice-President, Americas and Martin Brown, LRQA’s Vice-President for the Americas.. Visit our blog throughout February 2010 for daily blogs on issues affecting the food sector.

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What is Business Assurance?

– 12th Jan 2010

Business Assurance was developed and implemented by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance. Independent research highlighted the changing needs of organisations and their views on what the certification industry should deliver. That research was the beginning of LRQA’s Business Assurance.

LRQA’s Business Assurance helps you manage your systems and risks to improve and protect the current and future performance of your organisation.

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Measuring Organisational Carbon Footprint, ISO 14064

– 20th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs

ISO 14064: an emerging standard on Greenhouse Gas
accounting and verification is the title of a working paper on ISO’s latest GHG standard. The paper from Kevin Boehmer, Canadian Standards Association and
Secretary for the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change and
Aleg Cherp, ECOLOGIA and Central European University
Budapest and an expert on the ISO Working Group 5 on Climate Change, takes a closer look at the development of ISO 14064, the voluntary standard for organisations looking to measure and report on their organisation’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

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LRQA Trust and Transparency Podcast Series

– 19th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs

This page contains all 10 episodes of the LRQA Trust and Transparency Podcast Series, which included 5 audio and 5 video episodes, as well as the “What Assures Consumers in an Economic Report.” The report was launched in April, 2009 and this podcast series is a result of that report and a series of interviews that were conducted during the launch of the report.

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Episode 10, LRQA Business Assurance Trust and Transparency Podcast Series

– 6th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs

In Episode 10, the final one in the LRQA Business Assurance Trust and Transparency Podcast Series, Harriet Lamb, Fairtrade Foundation, Kate Ives, AccountAbility, Helen McTaggart, the Co-operative and Solitaire Townsend, Futerra Communications talk about the key findings from the “What Assures Consumers” research.

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How to secure international trade?

– 2nd Nov 2009 by Richard Gunawan

How do we balance the priorities between the government’s interests and organisational objectives?
With the proliferation of trade security initiatives showing no sign of abating, there is an urgent need to adopt a common architecture to manage the assurance requirements essential to the public and private sectors.

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Episode 9, LRQA Business Assurance Trust and Transparency Podcast Series

– 19th Oct 2009 by Alex Briggs

In Episode 9 of the 10-part LRQA Business Assurance Trust and Transparency Podcast Series, Helen McTaggart rom the Co-operative talks about the What Assures Consumers in an Economic Downturn Report. She also talks about some of the key issues that the Co-operative is dealing with regarding CSR and climate change.

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