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LRQA Americas discusses – How training can drive a food safety culture

21st Feb 2012

Training plays a critical role in assuring food safety. We can take our cues from recent work done by the GFSI. With the objective to improve food safety systems across the globe, the GFSI developed a tool kit to help food suppliers meet GFSI recognised certification schemes.

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LRQA Business Assurance looks at The Future of Food Safety Audits and Certification

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.

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Podcast: GFSI Global Food Safety Conference Day Two Collaboration & 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 [...]

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LRQA Business Assurance looks at The Future of Food Safety Audits and Certification

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 [...]

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Harmonisation & Auditor Competency – LRQA Business Assurance on how these both Improve Performance & Reduce Risk

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.

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Stakeholder Engagement and Developing a Food Safety Culture Highlight Day One of 2012 GFSI Conference

16th Feb 2012

Over 900 delegates from 47 countries discussed food safety, collaboration across the food supply chain and management systems on day one of the GFSI Food Safety Conference in Orlando, Florida.

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LRQA Business Assurance looks at how the Harmonisation of Standards has driven food safety across the supply chain

16th Feb 2012 by Cor Groenveld

I believe that the harmonisation of standards in the food supply chain is one of the most important topics within our industry. If we think back almost to 20 years ago, where the food sector started to expand the focus on food safety, we ended up with more than 100 standards for food safety management systems!

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Auditor competency leads discussion on day one of the GFSI Global Food Safety Conference

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.

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How a Process and System Based Approach to Certification & Audits is driving food safety

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’.

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LRQA Business Assurance talks Auditor Competency in driving food safety

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 [...]

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