Do you trust the food you eat?

The global food industry has never faced more challenges of substandard of food products and high profile cases crop up regularly to dent consumer confidence. So how trustworthy is your food?

Food safety is something we tend to granted.The content of the packets of food stuffs on display will match the information on the labels is also another question that we need to answer. In the early 1980s hundreds of people died from contaminated from cooking oil in Spain and more recently in China the industrial chemical melamine was found in powdered baby milk leading to fatalities and thousands of infants falling ill.

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The new 2015 revision of ISO 9001, brought right up to date in response to vast changes in technology, business diversity and global commerce, promises to be the most effective user friendly and relevant quality management system yet.

Every feedback from viewers and users of the standard has been very positive. “It’s a game changer ” says Simon Feary, Chief Executive at the Chartered Quality Institute in the UK and Alan Daniels of the Boeing who represented the International Aeroscope quality group on the ISO 9001 revision subcommittee sees it as a real improvement that will lead to a more robust. This is a wonderful opportunity for organization to refocus that quality management system really works. This is an exciting event and important news for all. The latest 2015 revision gives the jewel of quality management keeping it relevant and bringing it right up to date with today’s connected world.

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Things you should know about laboratory test results

When selecting a laboratory to fulfill your testing,you must be sure that they relies on ISO/IEC17025 laboratory management system which is acceptable all over the world

Confidence in products and services on the globalizing trade scene is getting hard to create and we all need to look reliable laboratories to meet testing requirements so the first and most important step is using laboratory which set up a standard, ISO/ IEC17025 laboratory management system. Regardless of the arena a laboratory works in ISO 17025 aims to improve the ability to consistently produce valid results.  It can help create the condition, satisfy the demands that a company need to have confidence and also enable test results to achieve this confidence .Based on the following steps a climate of confidence can be built and these are:

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