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US: Six best practices to make audits stress-free
FoodSafetyTech: Your next audit is already on its way. Now that many regulatory bodies and certification agencies are no longer required to give you a heads-up about upcoming audits, it’s completely up to you to stay on top of compliance, recordkeeping, and a myriad of other tasks on a day-to-day basis.
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AU: Webinar series: Country of Origin Labelling
Department of Industry, Innovation & Science: This series of webinars provides small to medium businesses from the food and agribusiness sector with information on the government planned changes to mandatory origin labeling on food products to help businesses comply with the new requirements.
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AU: 2017 Food recall statistics
Food Standards Australian New Zealand: FSANZ has collected data on Australian food recalls since 1990, including the causes of all recalls and their domestic or overseas origins. This data can be used to identify trends and common problems occurring in the food industry, so that steps can be taken to prevent future issues. These statistics are updated each year.
Read the full article at the Food Standards Australian New Zealand website
AU: When ethical and local means something else
Farmonline: Leading research from the University of Adelaide shows consumer motivations differ significantly from what labels and categories might suggest. Consumers might seek out an organic product, for instance, but concern about the environment comes a long way down the line in their reasons for doing that.
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US: Social responsibility’s influence over Food Safety and Quality
Food Safety Magazine: CSR encompasses a variety of facets: environmental conservation, community outreach, sustainable sourcing/animal welfare, good labor practices, etc. As this concept of “doing the right thing” has expanded over the years, its influence over FSQ objectives continues.
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US: Advocate for change to establish a Food Safety Culture
FoodSafetyTech: Presenting the potential damages of being linked to a foodborne outbreak is a great place to start. It typically will open the eyes and slightly intimidate each audience member. After all, executives and board members do not like to hear “profit loss”, “stock plunge”, and “tainted brand image”.
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AU: Listeria outbreak: Sixth person dies in NSW
ABC News:Â A woman in her nineties from New South Wales has become the sixth person to die from a Listeria outbreak linked to contaminated rockmelon.
Read Article →NZ: Tauranga research institute to open this year
FreshPlaza: If everything goes according to plan, a new, multimillion-dollar horticulture-focused regional research institute will be operational in Tauranga during the second half of 2018. The organisation’s key research themes are in data integration and analytics, autonomous devices and vehicles and point-of-use decision support tools.
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AU: Autumn foragers warned not to pick or eat wild mushrooms because of deadly deathcap risk
Food Safety Information Council: With the growing popularity of foraging for wild food, the Food Safety Information Council today warned people not to pick or eat wild mushrooms …
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