The management systems community
30th Mar 2012
The National Sustainable Food Summit is in Sydney on 4 April. Cor Groenveld – LRQA Global Product Manager Food Services – will be speaking on how management systems and audits support a sustainable food supply chain. In the run up to the event, Cor shared his insight on many of the key issues affecting this key area of the food sector
26th Mar 2012
Soitec earns new certifications for its global quality, safety and environment management systems standards
5th Mar 2012
ISO 10002:2004 certification for the immediate and efficient customer feedback management system has been the result of the Department’s firm commitment to improving the services provided to its customers, which constitutes a priority for all Trakhees sections.
27th Feb 2012
I believe that employees must not only be made aware of the big picture, but must also understand the vision and objectives of the organization and their responsibility vis-à-vis food safety. My experience has also shown that a well-thought-out management system to help achieve this objective is crucial.
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
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.
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!
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 [...]
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