by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Jan 17, 2018 | Food Safety
Johannesburg – The World Health Organisation has said South Africa’s Listeria outbreak, with nearly 750 confirmed cases, is believed to be the largest-ever outbreak of the bacterial disease listeriosis. The second largest outbreak of listeriosis was in...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Dec 5, 2017 | Food Safety
Introduction At the 2017 World Athletics Championships, Botswana sprinter Isaac Makwala qualified for the 200m semi-finals in a quite unusual way: by running the heat – and celebrating afterwards – all alone. During that week, Makwala, along with other athletes, had...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 25, 2017 | Food Safety
Introduction From a recent report of the USA’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) we learn that for the first time in 20 years, Campylobacter has taken the #1 position from Salmonella for causing food borne illnesses in the USA. Campylobacter is surpassing Salmonella...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 11, 2017 | Management
Introduction Are you and your team inundated with an overload of corrective and preventive actions (CAPA’s)? Do you see a continuous history of not delivering your CAPA’s in full and on time? Do you struggle to get the right people and departments involved in...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Apr 4, 2017 | Management
Introduction A lot of companies do not have clearly defined plans which are written down, communicated to all employees and monitored on a continuous basis. Hence the results of these companies will be mediocre and if the results are good this is quite often a case of...
