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Information sheet 64 English Translation
By George |
This is a English translation of information sheet 64 of the NVWA. As this is a translation it is not a legally binding document.
Global Food Chain Traceability
By Andrada Mierlut |
Read here for more about the importance of traceability, transparency, and visibility in the global food supply chain.
World Food Safety Day 2023
By George |
This page talks about the World Food safety Day and this year's theme Food Standards Save Lives. It highlightes the importance of harmonized food safety
World Food Safety Day: Saudi Arabia Jeddah
By George |
The following blog describes the history and importance of Food Safety Day. QAssurance will present at the event in Jeddah, Cees will be there as Key Speaker.
Webinar access to Global Markets BPWA
By George |
On Wednesday 17th of May the BPW-A and QAssurance organized a collaborative event about gaining access to global markets through certification.
iMIS E-Training Platform
By George |
With our iMIS E-Training platform, you will gain the tools to train yourself and your employees and improve the food safety culture.
Introducing our iMIS Food Chain
By Nele |
How to monitor your food safety situation at multiple locations? Keep it simple with iMIS Food Chain.
Market Matching event AGREA in the Philippines
By George |
George represented QAssurance on the March 13th at the AGREA Market Matching event to connect innovative Dutch companies with the Filipino Agro-food industry.
Food safety guide Asia and the Pacific
By Andrada Mierlut |
Read here the FAO guide to food safety in Asia and the Pacific. This article introduces the food safety toolkit on the less-known aspects of food safety.
A legal incompliance does not equal a critical
By George |
This case described whether in case of a announced audit an legal incompliance does not directly equal an a critical, in the scope of GFSI-standards.
Example: General terms and conditions of delivery
By George |
Hereby we present you an example of the General terms and conditions of delivery to set expectations for your supplier to adhere to certain quality.
Non-conformities in GFSI recognized standards
By George |
The following page, describes the case of non-conformities in GFSI recognized standards, BRC, IFS, FSSC 22000.
EU Food Safety Culture scorecard for employees
By George |
The following scan based on the EU manual 2022/C 355/01. This scan is specially aimed at employees to measure the food safety culture.
The trend of freelance auditors in certification
By George |
The following page, describes the experience of working with some freelance auditors that could be potential wolfs in the food industry.
iMIS Food Platform: Connect to Comply
By George |
The following page illustrates iMIS Food. With the renewed compliance portal, standards, legislation, hazards and fraud cases are easy to find.
Food Safety Compliance Course winter edition
By George |
In January, three groups joined the Food Safety Compliance courses. A Dutch, English and a group from Larenstein University of Applied Sciences.
iMIS Food Mobile: Comply with any mobile device
By George |
iMIS Food Mobile is now available on any mobile device. Please contact us, if you would like to know more about iMIS Food mobile and its features.
Food Safety Compliance training Online
By George |
We go back to the basics with the food safety compliance training, the foundation to properly fulfill the complex function of QA manager, now and tomorrow.
Fighting Climate Change to alter Agri-Food Systems
By Andrada Mierlut |
Read here an overview of the program for the Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum by the ADB and about fighting climate change.
Made by Africa: creating value through integration
By Andrada Mierlut |
Hereby a summary of made by Africa: creating value through integration published by the ITC. Read here about attractive African value chains.
The future of food safety, a foresight report by FAO
By Andrada Mierlut |
Hereby a summary of the FAO paper on the future of food safety, a foresight report published in 2022. Read here about the drivers and trends.
Bioeconomy: transforming the agrifood systems
By Nele |
Hereby a summary of the sustainable and circular bioeconomy in the climate agenda and opportunities to transform agrifood systems written by the FAO.
iMIS Food Handbook is available in 4 languages
By George |
The digital iMIS Food Handbook is ready and operational in 4 languages. The available languages are Dutch, German, English and French.
Participating at the NABC Ambassador Dinner 2022
By Nele |
On the 24th of November was NABC annual Ambassador dinner. Our iMIS Export team joined and shares its experience of the yearly event.
Unannounced Audits for GFSI certification
By Nele |
Because of unannounced Audits a QA manager has to be available at all times. As there is a shortage of QA Manager many are depended on external support.
QAssurance overview google analytics results 2022
By George |
In this following page, top 3 are made for different topics to highlight the most viewed pages; scorecards, FAQs and more at the QAssurance in 2022.
Workshop Food Safety and Export with Nigerian companies
By George |
On the 5th of December a delegation of Nigerian food organisations visited us to discuss food safety compliance and how to export.
Automation in agriculture to change agrifood systems by FAO
By Andrada Mierlut |
Hereby a summary of the FAO paper on The State of Food and Agriculture in 2022. Read about agricultural automation and how it helps agrifood systems.
Yongsoon Hwang: Our new Data-Scientist/ Team member
By George |
Get to know our newest talent. Yongsoon Hwang has a background in Food technology as well as data science, He will be working part-time next to his study.
Summary: Food Safety Culture by the GFSI
By Andrada Mierlut |
The following summarizes a report on food safety culture by the GFSI, as well as describing managerial tools to enhance Food safety culture in the organisation.
Real-time food safety system certification
By Nele |
To be certified, audits are mandatory with IMIS Food companies can do that themselves and assure real-time food safety compliance. Here are the benefits
The new MSME economy Post-Pandemic Drivers for Growth
By Andrada Mierlut |
The new MSME economy Post-Pandemic Drivers for Growth was written by the APEC Business Advisory Council and released in October 2022. Hereby a summary of it.
WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022-2030
By Nele |
Read here about the summary of WHO Global Strategy for food Safety 2022-2030 and how QAssurance can contribute to it.
iMIS E-learning Food Safety for employees online
By Andrada Mierlut |
Several topics are covered in this E-learning module, food safety, allergens, food defense, pest control and more.
Progress on food and agriculture: SDG indicators by FAO
By Andrada Mierlut |
Read here a summary of the FAO report on "Tracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators" which proposes analysis and trends on indicators.
Visiting Youth World Food Day 14th of October
By George |
There will be a great discussion about food at the Youth World Food Day. Food security, sustainability and awareness are essential topics every age to discuss.Â
The Food Export team goes to Rwanda
By Andrada Mierlut |
The Food Export Team traveled to Rwanda with the purpose of networking, checking the iMIS Food status at Winnaz, and attending the Poultry Africa fair.
Did the QA manager change into a QA issue manager?
By George |
The following article describes, the term QA manager and argues whether the qa manager is increasingly becoming a QA issue manager who solves issues all the time.
Brain drain in the Quality department
By Nele |
The whole global food supply chain suffers from brain drain in the QA department. QAssurance can help maintain the system even without the experts.
NLinBusiness event: NL international business day
By George |
On the 9th of september Nele and George went to the NL international business day event hosted by NLinBusiness, to learn about new markets and to network.
Visiting the Fairafric chocolate factory in Ghana
By Nele |
As part of the Food Export Program Nele Adade visited Fairafric, a chocolate manufacture close to Accra, Ghana to learn more about their work.
Search for innovation location partners in Germany
By George |
Together with our partner nuTIQ we bring iMIS to all German speaking countries. Therefore, we are looking for 10 innovation site partners in DE, CH and AT.
SEO project QAssurance website and top 10 pages
By George |
In the last half year, QAssurance has changed the website drastically. Next to the outline, the new design improved the overall SEO score on all pages.
iMIS Food Service & Retail: A total compliance platform
By George |
iMIS Food Service and Retail is customized to aid companies in the food service and retail industry with iMIS digital solutions for real-time compliance.
Checklist for the coming FDA food traceability rule
By Andrada Mierlut |
A stringent food traceability law will go into effect on November 7 imposed by the FDA. It will apply to the "high-risk items" linked to food-borne illnesses.
Remarks by FDA Deputy Commissioner at the IAFP
By Andrada Mierlut |
In August 2022, Frank Yiannas, the FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response gave a speech at the International Association for Food Protection.
Innovation in agri-food chains Asia and the Pacific
By Andrada Mierlut |
The article examines innovation taking place along the entire food supply chain, including production, manufacturing, and retailing.
3th training with Profound GMP / HACCP in Uganda
By George |
On August 2nd, we collaborated with Profound by doing a training. The content was about HACCP and GMP. The participants were from SME food companies in Uganda.
BioFach visit 2022: International Organic Fair
By George |
In July, QAssurance employees Andrada Mierlut and Nele Adade visited the BioFach in Nürnberg for networking purposes and supporting nuTIQ at the fair.
Transdisciplinary co-creation for food safety challenges
By George |
Co-creation, knowledge sharing, and transdisciplinary partnerships will bring us forward to tackling the forthcoming problems in the FMCG industry.
Digital traceability for sustainable value chains
By Andrada Mierlut |
Companies need transparency throughout their supply chains. Traceability implies inter cooperation across the whole value chain and requires collaboration.
Enabling market potential FMCG in the Philippines
By George |
The following page shows a post of Cherry Atilano, about the signing an agreement between AGREA and QAssurance about working together.
The food industry: A letter to the auditee
By George |
Herewith follows a letter for the party to be audited to make them more aware of the current situation of certification.
Digitalisation in Agriculture for emerging countries
By George |
Digitalisation in agriculture offers the potential to build more efficient, ecologically sustainable, and inclusive agri-food systems inline with SDGs
An internship at QAssurance? How was it looking back?
By George |
Have look back at our past interns. What are they doing now and how did they like the experience at QAssurance and their internship at the company.
QAssurance at ‘Africa Works!' 28th of June 2022
By George |
On 28th June 2022, QAssurance participated in the Africa Works conference in The Hague, organized by NABC.
The Dutch get a bronze medal in FSSC suspensions
By George |
In a short period of time, many Dutch FSCC  firms were suspended. Globally, BRC and IFS, FSCC 22000 are one of the primary certification standards used.
Deming circle and Certification management
By George |
The next page discusses how to apply the, plan, do , check, act circle or the Deming circle to food certification management.
Food System Resilience within a Learning Organization
By George |
Building Food System Resilience within a Learning Organization is written in the International Association for Food protection in the summer 2022.
NABC (Netherlands-African Business Council)
By George |
The NABC, has the expertise and knowledge working in African countries, therefore we became a member to ensure we can improve our food security program.
Suddenly, suspended for FSSC22000? How can it happen?
By George |
When a food company is suspended by the certifier without reason, it has nothing to do with your company but with their mismanagement.
iMIS Lab: Obtain the ISO 17025 within one year
By George |
Here we discuss the implementation of our newly launched product, iMIS Lab, to aid laboratories to comply with lab standards and lab legislation.
iMIS Food Online for New Ventures
By George |
Hereby, our iMIS Food Online version specialized in new business ventures. This page will summarize the components and the phases of implementation.
Guest lecture HVHL University of Applied Sciences
By George |
QAssurance went back to Larenstein for a second time, only this time George gave the lecture about food safety compliance. We made the presentation available for everyone down below.
Global Food Supply Chain : The latest trends
By George |
As the food producers, you have to deal with a range of parties, the trends in the Global Food Supply Chain elaborates.
The Global Food Safety Resource (GFSR)
By George |
GFSR is a global food safety resource provide information and training on food safety trends, regulatory compliance, industry standards, and more.
Salmonella in milk: Hazard history and records
By George |
The following page will show an overview of historical evidence about salmonella in milk, as well as a snap shot of iMIS Hazards with relevant cases.
Lecture Wageningen University: Food Safety Compliance
By George |
Associate Prof. Kasper Hettinga invited Cees for a guest lecture about food safety compliance to create a realistic perspective from a company perspective.
GMP Online Webinar for African SMEs/Smallholders
By George |
To enable SMEs in East Africa Good Manufacturing Procedures are key to maintain the quality of the food products and the power of the enterprises.
Food Safety Congress with nuTIQ and the GBA Group
By George |
The following page discusses the requirements of a specification and labelling procedure. This example procedure can be used as part of the PRPs.
Collaboration between QAssurance and Agrea
By George |
We partnered with Agrea to expand services to the Philippines, home to one of the largest agri-sectors in Asia, and develop opportunities for Southeast Asia
Food Safety Online training material
By George |
It is critical that information be shared among stakeholders in order to improve food security, food safety and local economy by theory and practice.
ProFound collaboration with QAssurance
By George |
To unite forces QAssurance has collaborated with ProFound, the company has an immense knowledge and experience in working in developing countries.
1-2 Taste collaboration with QAssurance
By Andrada Mierlut |
QAssurance launches a partnership with 1-2 Taste, to achieve global reach for iMIS Food. 1-2 Taste offers a digital trade platform worldwide
Food Safety Status in African countries
By George |
This presentation sums up the Food Safety status in Africa. It covers Food Safety management status, governance, actors involved, and certification status.
Online Food Safety Compliance Scorecard
By Andrada Mierlut |
Do you have any idea how the Food Safety Culture in your company is performing? Calculate now and score your company in the new tab.
Salmonella in an egg, no surprise
By George |
QAssurance records as a reaction to the ECDC and EFSA Salmonella in a chocolate egg Investigation.
Food Safety learning application in the organization
By George |
To create a learning environment a holistic approach to business performance, demand and supply relations, legislation and certification is needed.
Food Export Program case Winnaz
By George |
On the page, more information is given about the program with the Winnaz Rwanda case. A video is accompanied to have a clear idea of the program.
The Safe Food Imperative By Andrada Mierlut
By George |
The Safe Food Imperative report is a call for greater prioritization of Food Safety and public targeted investment in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Certification Cowboys
By Cees van Elst |
The freelance auditors are the certification cowboys of the Food market.
Market attractiveness: African emerging countries
By Andrada Mierlut |
In this article you can read more about African emerging countries and their market attractiveness.
Food Safety certification status in African countries
By Steven Hensen |
In this article you can read more about the current Food Safety certification status in Africa and how iMIS Food Global enhances Food Safety
QAssurance goes surfing at beach Ter Heijde!
By Steven Hensen |
Team QAssurance goes surfing! Last week, the whole team of QAssurance had a nice event. Instead of Friday afternoon drinks at the office, they went surfing at beach Ter Heijde.
BRC, IFS, FSSC 22000 Certification: overview of 11 countries
By Steven Hensen |
This page will contain information about Food Safety certification in different countries. In total there are 38.461 companies in eleven countries.
FOGA Organic Gum implementing iMIS Food Global
By Steven Hensen |
FOGA Organic Gum from Sudan started the implementation of iMIS Food Global. The iMIS Food server in Rotterdam is set up for FSSC22000 certification.
Nigeria: Status Food Safety issues and challenges
By Steven Hensen |
In this article you can read what the current state and challenges of Food Safety in Nigeria is and what initiatives there are to improve this situation
Food safety projects in African countries
By Steven Hensen |
The GFSP report reveals that more than half of the donor-funded food safety projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) emphasis on export markets food safety.
Food Safety status in African countries
By Steven Hensen |
Food safety is linked either directly or indirectly to the fulfilment of the SDGs, to ending hunger and poverty, promoting good health and well-being.
Where it all started! A QAssurance history lesson!
By Steven Hensen |
In 2006, Martijn and Cees visited the Preikestolen in Norway, what started the beginning of QAssurance.
Save on the costs of a food audit. Is that possible?
By Steven Hensen |
To give food companies control over external parties, we share with you the days that are normally required for an food audit, as well as costs savings.
Food Safety Compliance and Systems Thinking methodology
By Steven Hensen |
Systems thinking is a scientific approach that tries to maintain an overview of the whole, instead of concentrating on individual stakeholders in the system.
Latin America, current food safety compliance status
By Steven Hensen |
Food Safety Compliance status in Latin America has been summarized in a table. We looked at different standards and looked at the difference between regions.
Food materials for European market clearance
By Steven Hensen |
European Food Law is a hard and wide-ranging subject to study. The General Food Law Regulation makes sure that people's lives are well protected.
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