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November 14, 2024
BRC PACKAGING MATERIALS STANDARD VERSION 7
The primary function of food packaging is to protect food from chemical, physical, and other environmental factors or to extend the product’s shelf life (e.g., MAP
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November 5, 2024
STORIES FROM PRACTICE – Part One: INTEGRITY AUDIT
Given that your favorite part during training is when we share practical examples, we’re starting a series of texts featuring various challenges our colleagues have faced
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October 30, 2024
What Is Causing the Increase in Food Product Recalls?
In recent period, almost every week (or even more frequently), the media reports similar announcements: We are intentionally not disclosing product or company details here, as
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October 3, 2024
SUPPLIERS AUDITS
There is often confusion regarding the terms “customer audit” and “supplier audit.” With a slight change in terminology, it becomes clearer that these are two different
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September 18, 2024
MAINTENANCE AND EQUIPMENT IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY
To obtain a product that is of appropriate quality and, most importantly, health-safe, in addition to adequate raw materials and packaging, many other significant factors must
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September 5, 2024
NONCONFORMITIES AND CORRECTIVE ACTIONS
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS We believe that you feel at least a small discomfort every time any kind of nonconformity arises. All procedures are followed, quality control
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August 4, 2024
COMPLAINT MANAGEMENT
I believe we all share the same uncomfortable feeling when we receive any kind of customer or consumer complaint. You have followed all the procedures, the
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July 21, 2024
CUSTOMERS AUDITS
To ensure that products and services meet specified requirements and possess certain characteristics in terms of quality, reliability, safety, efficiency, customers resort to evaluating their compliance.
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June 20, 2024
IFS HPC STANDARD
Since their development, standards owned by retail chains have significantly changed the management systems of their suppliers. It must be acknowledged that with the help of
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May 9, 2024
HOW TO INTERPRET FOOD STANDARD REQUIREMENTS
The requirements of recognized GFSI standards are very clearly defined, and their interpretation and understanding truly pose no problem. However, there are concepts that make a
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April 21, 2024
HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY PASS GFSI AUDIT
(On examples of food standards : IFS, BRC, FSSC22000) We are witnessing that big changes are happening in the market when we talk about the production
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January 17, 2024
<strong>TRANSPORT AND STORAGE: IFS LOGISTIC STANDARD VERSION 3</strong>
In our article from 15.04.2021. we talked about the general requirements that GFSI-recognized standards set for companies engaged in transportation and storage services. Let’s recall why
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