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Food safety blogs

Vel Pillay discusses GFSI and Food Safety Modernization Act impacts – LRQA Food Forum Brazil – Blog 1

31st Aug 2011

Vel Pillay discusses the paradigm shift in the way the food industry and government look at assessing food safety.

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LRQA Business Assurance Food Safety Blog, February 2011

28th Feb 2011 by Cor Groenveld

Certification was a recurring theme throughout the GFSI Conference in London. With “Developing” a food safety culture the overall theme of the conference, the links between the two topics is the focus of today’s blog.

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LRQA Business Assurance Food Podcast Series, Episode 2

3rd Feb 2011 by Cor Groenveld

LRQA Food Safety Podcast Series 2011, episode 2, is an interview with Cor which took place at the end of day one of the European Manufacturing and Safety Forum in Holland.

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LRQA Business Assurance Food Podcast Series, Episode 1

1st Feb 2011 by Alex Briggs

Cor Groenveld, one of the world’s leading food safety experts and LRQA’s Global Product Manager for food services, kicks off this podcast series with his thoughts on a range of food safety and food supply chain topics.
Cor talks about the two global food safety events coming up this month as well as the importance of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and finally the changes taking place in the USA regarding food safety.

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Cor Groenveld, LRQA, reports from day 1 of the GIFSQ event

12th Nov 2010 by Cor Groenveld

CIFSQ Event – November 2010 – Day One podcast blog from Cor Groenveld, Global Product Manager Food at LRQA. Read the transcript and listen to the podcast.

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Cor Groenveld reports from day 2 of the GIFSQ event

12th Nov 2010 by Cor Groenveld

Day Two of the CIFSQ Event, November 2010 – podcast blog from Cor Groenveld, Global Product Manager Food at LRQA.

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Cor Groenveld reports from the CIFSQ conference in Shanghai

10th Nov 2010

Global Product Manager Food at LRQA, Cor Groenveld, provides insight from what has been happening on day one of this eagerly awaited global food event via a webinar podcast. Hear what he has to say now!

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Food Industry needs to be proactive – in both actions and communications

21st Jun 2010 by Alex Briggs

Jon Poole, the recently appointed new chief executive of the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST), told FoodNavigator.com that the industry needs to be pro-active and not reactive. In this FoodNavigator article, Poole said, “There’s a lot we can do by being pre-emptive.”

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LRQA Food Safety Link of the Day – April 28, 2010

28th Apr 2010 by Alex Briggs

Dr. James L. Marsden is Regent’s Distinguished Professor of Food Safety and Security at Kansas State University. His blog post, “Ten things government can do to help small plants improve food safety”, is our link of the day today.
Find out how LRQA is actively helping organisations manage their food safety risks,

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China to focus on Food Safety in 2010

16th Mar 2010 by Alex Briggs

China has vowed to clampdown on food safety issues across the supply chain. In this Food Quality News article, China’s Vice Minister of Agriculture Wei Chao’an said,

Our agricultural products overall are safe and of high quality, but we must also recognize that while we transition from traditional to modern farming, many of our operations remain scattered, production methods are still backward and our supervision lags behind.

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