by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Sep 1, 2020 | Algemeen
Often, food safety professionals struggle to secure the resources needed to guarantee food safety in their organizations. The current corona-virus pandemic makes the food safety professionals’ mission even more complicated. The current situation will last for...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | May 5, 2019 | Food Safety
It is important to understand what foreign object or objects is / are present in food. 2018 was a record year for food recalls related to foreign objects: there was one case per week on average, according to worldwide data from Horizonscan. In absolute numbers, these...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 8, 2019 | Food Safety
What is food fraud? Do you remember the horse meat scandal? It originated in Ireland at the beginning of 2013, when food inspectors found out that beef meat sold at common supermarkets contained considerable traces of horse meat. From there, over 15,000 tests were...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 30, 2019 | Food Safety
What are import food and export food requirements between China an the EU? What do you need to know? Ham treated with pesticides, fake powdered milk, expired meat sold to fast food chains and baby formula contaminated with melamine are just a few examples of the long...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 24, 2019 | Algemeen
In the early sixties hardly anybody knew how heat sealing machines work. For those of you that were born in or before the sixties, you may remember your lunch choice being made through a glass shelf on a café counter top, where the selection on offer was a bland...
