Monthly News Review from Verner Wheelock – May 2015

RSPH Winner for Verner Wheelock and Symington’s Last year three of our delegates won top student awards from the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) so we were really pleased to hear that another of our delegates had won an RSPH award this year. Sarah Jolly-Hart from Symington’s in Leeds has gained top marks in the […]

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Understanding BRC Issue 6

Every few years the British Retail Consortium (BRC) review their Food Safety Standard and in July of this year Issue 6 of the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety has just been released and will come into force on 1st January 2012. This may seem a long time off, but in actual fact it’s only

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26 May 2015

Live long and prosper – become a vegetarian! #nvw15 #veggie

Some studies have shown that people eating a plant-based diet tend to live longer and healthier lives than meat-eaters. In fact vegetarians have a lower incidence of cancer, especially colon, stomach, mouth, oesophagus, lung, prostate, bladder, and breast cancers. It’s reckoned that this is probably attributed to the phytonutrients present in plant foods, as well

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How to make sure your products don’t create Listeria hysteria

Listeria monocytogenes – it’s a little critter, but it’s been making quite a name for itself recently. If you’ve been reading the newspapers or following various food safety alerts, you’ll be aware that there have been several product recalls on account of confirmed or suspected incidences of Listeria, especially in the United States. The most

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How space travel helped bring about HACCP #HACCP

Space…The final frontier… several thousand light years from a dairy farm, bakery or food processing plant. So who’d have imagined that the HACCP food safety management systems we follow today had their origins in the USA’s space programme? Houston, we have a problem… Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) began life in the early

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