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Why Most Food Safety Risk Assessments Do Not Actually Reduce Risk

What will you learn? In this article, Denis Kiely explains why risk assessments often look complete on paper but still fail to reduce inherent risk. You will learn: Why hazard identification and risk assessment are not the same thing Why a risk matrix is only useful if the think...

Food Defence

“Food defence is the effort to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration or tampering” (FDA) FDA has a leading role in a number of food defence initiatives to protect food from acts of intentional adulteration or tampering and to assist facilities to prevent, pre...

Food Safety Culture – What is the purpose of and implications for (EU) 2021/382?

The newly published commission regulation (EU) 2021/382 amending regulation 852/2004 requires all food business operators to establish, maintain and provide evidence of an appropriate food safety culture. This legal requirement is a new departure as culture can be quite a subject...

Uncertainty of a Different Kind….Estimation of Measurement Uncertainty in Testing Labs

Uncertainty was one word used time and time again during the pandemic. Each of us have different approaches for trying to deal with expected change or apprehension about what lies ahead. I am certainly hopeful of brighter days ahead…This article, written by our Expert Tutor, An...

Top Tips for a Better Virtual Training Experience

After moving from years of classroom based training to the virtual world, our Expert Tutor, Edel Jones asks the question is virtual training here to stay and gives valuable insights and advice on how to make the most of virtual As ISO 22000/2018 defines Risk as ‘The effect of u...

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