The management systems community
21st Feb 2012 by Alex Briggs
In the US, two food safety crises over the past three years have led certain interested parties to question the role and even complicity of both second and third party certification industry in managing risks in the food supply chain – LRQA discusses independent third party audits and why they are a good for food [...]
20th Feb 2012 by Cor Groenveld
Manufacturers and retailers see the benefits of a harmonised approach and they are more and more willing to work together. This is essential because this is the only way to achieve harmonisation.
17th Feb 2012 by JChowdhury
Welcome to the LRQA Business Assurance Food Podcast Series. On day two of the GFSI Global Food Safety Conference in Orlando, collaboration and harmonisation remain two of the most dominant themes. We talk to Fons Schmidt, the independent chairman of the Board of Stakeholders of the Foundation of Food Safety Certification, the owners of FSSC [...]
17th Feb 2012 by JChowdhury
I would like to talk about the trends in the food supply chain – mainly related to audits and certification. I think the organisations in the food supply chain are ready now to harmonise. Manufacturers and retailers see the benefits of a harmonised approach and they are more and more willing to work together. This [...]
17th Feb 2012 by Cor Groenveld
When you look at LRQA’s auditors and our approach at audits, we are intensively training our people to make sure that they have a management system process based approach.
16th Feb 2012
LRQA’s Cor Groenveld and Vel Pillay join the GFSI’s leading expert on auditor competency, Bill McBride, in this podcast on auditor competency.
15th Feb 2012 by Cor Groenveld
We have seen a very big change when you look at the approach of certification and audits and I think a very positive change. When we started with certification in the food supply chain it was more about inspection; we had the inspection bodies, they came in with a check list and what they did was to simply ‘tick the box’.
14th Feb 2012 by JChowdhury
The food sector increasingly relies on independent, robust third party certification. And not just to protect brands and businesses from prosecutions and health scares- especially relevant given the recent Cantaloupe Listeria Monocytogenes outbreak in the US and the Salmonella Newport outbreak in the UK – but also to drive improvements and secure competitive advantage. A [...]
20th Nov 2009 by Alex Briggs
The US Senate approved the Food Safety Bill yesterday, bringing the bill to its final hurdle. The House of Representatives is not likely to being debating the bill until next year, with their approval meaning the bill would effectively pass into law, as President Obama is a vocal proponent of the bill.
22nd Jul 2009 by Alex Briggs
The latest LRQA Business Assurance interview features Robert DuPuy, the Head of Sales and Training for Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, Inc. (LRQA). In this interview, Robert talks about some of the key issues that organisations are facing during difficult economic times. He talks about management systems, the characteristics of a good management system and the importance of having accredited independent third party certification of management systems.
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