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	<description>Delivering Food Safety and HACCP Solutions</description>
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		<title>Co-operative Consortium announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Suppliers to the food industry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BRC Issue 6]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MQM Consulting is absolutely delighted to announce that it has joined a Consortium of like minded professional organisation providing services to the food and related industries. The Consortium was set up by Peter and Nathan Reilly &#8211; the father and son founders of Cleaner Products &#8211; a company dedicated to the provision of UK produced cleaning chemicals and full technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banoffee tart box. New York Cheesecake inside.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food Standards Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I guess it&#8217;s no wonder that extremely stringent packaging check procedures are demanded by Issue 6 of the BRC Global Food Standard when you read this article from the Food Standards Agency. This is a fairly basic and avoidable error. Let&#8217;s hope that the Issue 6 BRC Standard requirement to look at root cause when things like this happen will help. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRC Issue 6 Guidance Part 4</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/quality-management/brc-issue-6-guidance-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[BRC Issue 6]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our guidance for those trying to upgrade their systems to be compliant with the new Issue 6 of the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety The HACCP Plan Hazard analysis There is, on the whole, relatively little change in Issue 6 concerning the way that hazard analysis should be executed. Some of the same rules apply &#8211; assess hazard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRC Issue 6 Guidance Part 3</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/haccp/brc-issue-6-guidance-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HACCP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BRC Issue 6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following our last post we continue our guidance on implementing a BRC Global Standard Issue 6 compliant HACCP Plan. &#160; Section 2.3 Describing the Product I&#8217;m often asked about the &#8220;point&#8221; of this, in a HACCP Plan. The answer is simple. It makes the HACCP Team consider the impact of the attributes of the product on the credible food safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRC Issue 6 Guide Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/brc/brc-issue-6-guide-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Certification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HACCP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last time we covered the extra requirements (over Issue 5) for section 1 &#8211; Senior Management Commitment This time we shall start to look at the BRC Global Food Standard Issue 6 section on HACCP. The mandatory requirements have been expanded somewhat over Issue 5. We going to start with the revised clauses on managing the pre-requisite programmes, a change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A good cleaning article</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/brc/a-good-cleaning-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hygiene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sanitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Hygiene Audit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hygienic Design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Well done to Vermop! The German cleaning equipment company has released an excellent guide in European Cleaning Journal. It points out some of the fundamental assumptions that can be made in critical sectors such as medical and care and lead to infection and outbreaks. The guidance provided of course rings true for the equally critical food catering and processing sector. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRC Issue 6 guide</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/brc/brc-issue-6-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at MQM have decided that it would be helpful to all those certificated food processors out there, and those who might wish to become certificated to the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 6, if we issue some helpful notes concerning the BRC Standard clauses, especially the revised ones. And so from now and for the next few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botulism outbreak in France</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/brc/botulism-outbreak-in-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microbiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outbreaks and related news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food poisoning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Food Standards Agency is reporting on an outbreak from pastes contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium behind the deadly botulism disease. The product has not been distributed within the UK but caution is exercised if the affected products were purchased by anyone visiting France. Meanwhile in France the products have been withdrawn from market. The bacterium grows well if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8211; BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 6 Update</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/quality-management/new-brc-global-standard-for-food-safety-issue-6-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/quality-management/new-brc-global-standard-for-food-safety-issue-6-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that we are offering a new course: The 1 day BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Update course is recommended for those processors who are certificated to Issue 5 and are looking for guidance on how to prepare for Issue 6, against which they will be audited from January 2012. The course examines the change in audit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China gets tough on food safety</title>
		<link>http://www.mqmconsulting.co.uk/quality-management/china-gets-tough-on-food-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Mallett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some may say that, at last, and after the recent incidents that have damaged its food industry&#8217;s reputation with food incidents such as the melamine in powdered milk debacle, China is getting tough on food safety! Food Quality News.com reports that the food authorities have been inspecting 5.9 million businesses and that local police departments have been investigating 1200 criminal [...]]]></description>
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