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The world’s leading food businesses might have all the required food safety standards in place, yet major food poisoning outbreaks still occur and a third of all new diseases have entered our system through the food chain. The missing link? A business culture devoted to food safety and quality.
This was the key issue addressed at the Global Food Safety Conference, held in London in February this year. NCS International’s CEO Greg Jewson was one of the 700 delegates in attendance, and he shared his notes from the event with us...
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In December 2010, American retail giant Wal-Mart announced that all produce suppliers would need to meet the relevant GFSI food safety standard.
This included Global Gap, SQF 1000 and Primus GSF.
Although NCSI and other US-based auditing firms knew this was coming, it did take some primary producers by surprise...
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Sydney Fish Market, the largest wholesale seafood market in the Southern Hemisphere, recently became the first Australian food-sector company to achieve certification of its 2009/2010 Greenhouse emissions report to the International Standard for Corporate Greenhouse Reporting - ISO 14064-1:2006...
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The community's ever-increasing concern regarding workplace social issues seems to have prompted major retailers to begin reviewing the operational and social values of their suppliers. Additional audit criteria focusing on staff safety, appropriate pay and ethical issues amongst others will form the base of these reviews.
While some companies have implemented supply chain assessment programs for years, this shift in focus will mark a turning point for the majority...
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Every audit undertaken by an NCSI representative is subject to an extensive technical review process. This process involves the review of audit reports, findings and durations among other key aspects of each audit and provides us with a key insight into conformance and non-conformance trends.
Extensive reviews of HACCP-based audits indicate that less and less issues are being identified within this area over time, resulting in a subsequent decline in the number of non-conformances raised.
There are some areas we do see issues raised time and time again, however, and we've listed and detailed the Top 3 in an effort to help you look out for them...
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Woolworths released the latest version of the Woolworths Quality Assurance standard (WQAv7) on the 5th January 2011. All audits undertaken from the 1st of April 2011 are undertaken to the new standards and indications are that it is being well received by NCSI clients...
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Training
NCSI has partnered with the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute to deliver its foundation course in Corporate Greenhouse Gas accounting.
GHGMI, an international leader in training climate change professionals, and NCS International invite you to attend our 2-day Basics of Organisational GHG Accounting course taking place in Sydney:
July 28-29th, 2011
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Certification
New Standard: Freshcare
NCS International is now able to provide auditing to the Freshcare Food Safety Program.
Freshcare is an industry owned, not for profit on-farm assurance program established in 2000 to provide benefits to both suppliers and customers. The program links food safety on farm to the quality and food safety management programs of the other members of the fresh produce supply chain taking a more integrated approach to food safety.
Freshcare is currently the largest on-farm assurance program for fresh produce...
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Client
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) is currently managing a global survey. The survey aims to collect and analyse feedback from users of certification to ascertain the drivers for seeking it and the value it provides. The study is currently being conducted in over 50 different economies. The IAF is the world association of Conformity Assessment Accreditation Bodies and other bodies interested in conformity assessment in the fields of management systems, products, services, personnel and other similar programmes of conformity assessment. Its main function is to develop a single worldwide program of conformity assessment which reduces risk for business and its customers by assuring them that accredited certificates may be relied upon. Click here to take the survey.
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FoodNCSI Americas Inc. was recently appointed as one of only two suppliers allowed to audit the United States' 250 bottled water manufacturers under a new contract with the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA)
"We partnered with QUASI (Quality Assurance International, LLC), an organisation that has been a member of the IBWA for many years." says Ben Marchant, NCSI Americas Sales and Marketing Manager.
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