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Quality

Corporate Social Responsibility increasingly key issue for firms

17th Mar 2008 by razchaudary

How do Taiwanese companies support their CSR decision making?

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Credibility in international organic trade crucial

13th Mar 2008

The IFOAM Trade Congress 2008 was held on the day before BioFach opened in Nuremberg and addressed important issues of worldwide product sourcing, transparency in trade and potential opportunities for fraud. In their contributions, several speakers from USA, Germany and the Netherlands examined the problems from different angles.

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Case Study: Using a risk assessment model in a quality management system

28th Feb 2008

“In today’s Quality Management systems, the ability to control and correct processes is key to maintaining a high level of compliance within an organization”, says pharmaceuticalonline.com.

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Is your beer safe?

30th Oct 2007 by Alex Briggs

Anheuser Busch has denied serious allegations by Greenpeace that their Budweiser beer contains traces of a genetically engineered strain of rice known as “Liberty Link”.
Liberty Link is a series of strains of GM rice from Bayer CropScience. Some of the strains are banned in a number of markets around the world for human consumption, but not in the US.
Due to Anheuser Busch’s position as the largest single purchaser of American rice, Greenpeace claims that the group had a responsibility to ensure it was fully aware of how it is sourcing ingredients.

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Technical Committee Guide to ISO 22000

10th Sep 2007

September 2007 GFSI Technical Committee Position Paper on ISO 22000

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Times highlights need for Food Assurance

16th Apr 2007 by Tim Kitchin

UK newspaper, The Times has highlighted a growing scandal as demand for ‘ethical’ and sustainable products outstrips supply, and unscrupulous suppliers are pushing farms.

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Quality compost to reduce landfill

3rd Apr 2007

Under current legislation in the UK, producers of compostable waste may need to apply for a license before they can spread it on land.

According to an article on the IEMA website, he new Quality Protocol proposed by the Environment Agency in England and Wales will mean that compostable products will be easier to dispose.

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Deming says ‘adopt the new philosophy’

29th Mar 2007

Deming argues that managers must ‘adopt the new philosophy’ — in this case, his new philosophy — but the rationale is applicable whether or not we examine his approach.

His argument was thus: unless management adopt the reforms they put in place, they shouldn’t expect their workforce to do so; the same goes for management systems.

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Time for a Chinese standards institute?

28th Mar 2007 by Tim Kitchin

“Chinese consumer confidence in foreign brand-name products is decreasing after frequent media reports about their shabby quality.”

So says this piece from China Business News.

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Why continuous improvement is necessary

6th Mar 2007

The ASQ Quality in Education blog highlights a video by Karl Fisch and Scott Macleod, and shows why any commitment to quality must also include a commitment to continuous improvement .

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Climate Change

The Climate Change section is your one stop shop for news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other climate change resources.

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Supply Chain

The Supply Chain Assurance section covers news, blogs, podcasts, standards, events and resources on supply chain issues.

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Food

The Food section focuses on issues of food safety and the food supply chain, and provides news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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CSR

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) section focuses on current CSR issues which face all companies all over the world. This information is provided to you via six sections: news, blog posts, podcasts, resources, standards and events.

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Product Conformity

The Product Conformity section contains news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and resources covering Product Conformity and other European Union related issues.

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Business Continuity

The Carbon Labelling section was launched in sync with the Check-out Carbon report, June 2008. The section contains information on news, blogs, podcasts, events, standards and other carbon labelling resources.

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