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We had a great couple of days in the DeliciouslYorkshire area of the Harrogate Fine Food Show on 21st and 22nd June. It was a chance to catch up with some existing clients, as well as meeting lots of potential new customers. Many of those visiting the show seemed to be contemplating setting up a new […]
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Food Safety & Hygiene NewsCourse Summary This is a one day highly interactive workshop to discuss ideas and techniques to keep your training topical and up to date. Entry Requirements Aimed at those trainers who have completed a formal teaching or training qualification three or more years ago. Course Structure & Content Keeping your training topical Ideas and techniques
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Food Safety & Hygiene NewsMeat, McLibel and our first award By the mid-1990s, Verner Wheelock Associates had earned a reputation for being food safety experts. In amongst arranging various training courses, Verner was writing a regular column on food and food safety for Bradford’s Telegraph & Argus newspaper. His background in nutrition and food policy also meant that he
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Food Safety & Hygiene NewsLet’s start at the very beginning – the early 1990s The years leading up to the formation of Verner Wheelock Associates in 1990 were interesting ones in terms of the understanding of food safety – or should we say lack of it. One of the most notable was an outbreak of food poisoning at Stanley
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Food Safety & Hygiene NewsYou could be forgiven for thinking that ‘umami’ is the name of a hurricane or word concocted by comic Vic Reeves for use on his TV show Shooting Stars. That simply isn’t true. What is true, though, is that ‘umami’ is an invented word, created by Dr Kikunae Ikeda of Tokyo Imperial University in 1908.
