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December 15, 2023
<strong>FOREIGN BODY MANAGEMENT</strong>
I believe that you have happened to find hair, insects or parts of insects, plastic, and in the worst case, glass, metal, traces of rodents in
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November 13, 2023
<strong>WASTE MANAGEMENT FROM THE ASPECT OF FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS</strong>
During any type of production, different types of waste are generated in the company. In order for the company to meet the legal requirements, as well
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October 10, 2023
<strong>BRC RISK ZONES</strong>
Unlike other GFSI-recognized standards, the BRC standard raises the level of requirements related to product safety to higher level, by requiring the identification of risk zones,
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September 24, 2023
<strong>FOOD SAFETY MANAGEMENT APPLIED BY DISTRIBUTORS (AGENTS AND BROKERS STANDARDS)</strong>
In order to maintain food safety (as well as quality and authenticity) in the entire supply chain, food (product) safety standards also cover companies that trade
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September 6, 2023
<strong>HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK</strong>
We talked about safety and health at work in the blog dated February 24, 2021. (https://asconsulting.rs/health-and-safety-at-work-standard-iso-450012018/), where it is shown that around 2 million people in
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August 14, 2023
<strong>FOOD DEFENSE THROUGH HISTORY OF INCIDENTS</strong>
We talked about the basic terms related to food defense, as well as the requirements of food safety standards, in the text dated May 12, 2021,
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July 29, 2023
<strong>PREREQUISITE PROGRAMS (PRPs)</strong>
Can we imagine the production of safe food in production facilities that do not have pest control measures in place? Or are the rules of good
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July 18, 2023
<strong>QUALITY INDICATORS OF DRINKING WATER</strong>
We spoke about the quality of drinking water in the food industry in the text: https://asconsulting.rs/water-in-the-food-industry/. Now we continue to clarify this topic by dealing with
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July 7, 2023
<strong>ALLERGENS – DIFFERENCES IN EU/US LEGAL REQUIREMENTS</strong>
We dealt with allergens from the point of view of food standards in the blog from September 14, 2022. (https://asconsulting.rs/food-as-an-allergen-allergen-management/), where the term itself is defined,
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June 8, 2023
<strong>FOOD SAFETY CULTURE – NEW TRENDS</strong>
We talked about food safety culture in our text from 08/19/2020. year, but considering that it is gaining wider application within the new versions of GFSI-recognized
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May 12, 2023
<strong>IFS FOOD STANDARD VERSION 8</strong>
Although that version 8 were expected in January 2023, due to the GFSI suspension, the release was postponed until April: audits according to version 8 are
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May 3, 2023
<strong>THE BASIC PRINCIPLES INCORPORATED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM STANDARDS</strong>
The term “environment” is used to describe our natural environment, such as trees, grass, water, air. According to ISO 1400: (clause 3.8) “the environment is the
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