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Systems

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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Supply Chains: Who’s to blame when it all goes wrong?

17th Sep 2007 by Gail Van Den Bos

China’s manufacturing sites come in for a lot of bad press… maybe deservedly, but they are part of a chain of responsibility that starts with the customer at one end of the chain. Quite a few questions need to be asked before identifying culprits who contribute to product failures.

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Supply chain traceability: ISO 22005:2007

17th Sep 2007

Supply chain traceability: ISO 22005:2007 ISO 22005:2007, published in the summer of 2007, sets out the requirements for standardised food and feed traceability — from grower to animals, and from farmers to shop shelves.

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ISO 22000:2005

23rd Aug 2007

This is an international standard for Food Safety Management Systems where an organization in the food chain needs to manage food safety hazards and risks in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption. Clients will be confident when they see that you have it and large food producers are […]

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OHSAS 18001

20th Aug 2007

The standard which provides a systematic approach to identifying hazards, and then either eliminating the hazards or reducing their risks.

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BMS slashes WIP by 75%

19th Sep 2006 by Tim Kitchin

People-centric systems are the key to improved manufacturing performance, according to a survey from solution providers Invistics, profiled at in Pharma Technology.

Their recent research report highlights Bristol-Myers Squibb’s achievement in slashing cycle times by 80 per cent and Work-In-Progress (WIP) by 75 per cent.

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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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Carbon Labelling

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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