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Have you ever spent forty minutes solving a client’s certification hurdles, only to realise they never wanted a solution in the first place?
It happens more often than the certification sector likes to admit. A company reaches out, a standard process kicks in, requirements are listed, timelines are quoted, documents are requested. Forty minutes later, the company has answers to questions it never asked, and no answer to the one it came with. Sometimes a company approaching a certification body is not looking for a certificate at all yet. They...
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An outbreak that runs for a year is rarely one big failure. It is a series of small gaps that nobody connected in time.
The UK Health Security Agency is tracking a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak that has continued for around a year, with 207 reported cases as of 13 August 2026 and one death. Investigations of this kind are complex, and identifying a definitive source across a long timespan is genuinely difficult. What long-running outbreaks tend to have in common, across many past examples, is not a single dramatic breakdown. It...
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Before food reaches a store, 13% of it is already lost. Part of that loss begins with a control that did not hold.
Today is the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. FAO estimates that around 13% of the world’s food is lost in the supply chain between post harvest and retail, food that never reaches a consumer at all. Part of this loss begins with situations food safety systems are designed to prevent: a temperature deviation in storage or transport, pest activity, contamination during processing, or...
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