by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Sep 1, 2020 | Algemeen
Food Safety Budget….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...
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...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 19, 2019 | Algemeen
In March 2017 the EU parliament and the commission adopted Regulation 2017/625 on Official Controls on food and feed – Official Controls Regulation. Most of its provisions will be applied in December 2019. The new Regulation incorporates (and repeals) several...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 11, 2019 | Algemeen
On 15 March 2017 the Official Controls Regulation on the food supply chain was adopted by the EU Parliament and Commission in Regulation 2017/625 on . The news didn’t make too many waves in the industry, perhaps because – at least for the immediate future...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Mar 7, 2017 | Algemeen
Introduction Cost of Non Quality Do you find it difficult to get good insight in the cost of non quality in your organization? Do you often get nasty questions of senior management regarding costs? Do you struggle to show the real benefits of proper quality assurance...
by Kitty Appels & Rob Kooijmans | Dec 22, 2016 | Algemeen
Listeria Monocytogenes and Meningitis spread through food Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen that can cause meningitis. The Dutch University Hospital in Amsterdam, AMC investigated listerial genetic variation and the relation with clinical outcome in...
