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The Excellence Awards Winners 2021

Anybody attending a Verner Wheelock course – whether here in Skipton, in-house, or remote – has a chance of being selected for a Verner Wheelock Excellence Award. There are awards for HACCP, Auditing and Food Safety as well as Individual Excellence, Company Excellence and Ethical Excellence. For the HACCP, Auditing and Food Safety Awards, our […]

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Taking the ‘staff’ out of Staphylococcus aureus

Campylobacter, E-coli and salmonella – everybody’s heard of them and knows that they’re the bacteria responsible for many food poisoning outbreaks. Staphylococcus aureus is not one that readily trips off the tongue and yet it’s actually classed as a superbug. If this unpleasant critter gets into your bloodstream you’ll be seriously ill and could even

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Are you ready for Natasha’s Law?

Many people will remember the unfortunate story of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse; the teenager who died following an allergic reaction to a sandwich containing sesame. The sandwich was pre-packed but did not contain an ingredients label or allergy messaging. This type of labelling was not mandatory at the time but, following her death, her parents strived to

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Verner Wheelock Excellence Award Winners 2020

The Verner Wheelock Excellence Awards We might have been in lockdown and in and out of tiers last year, but the pandemic didn’t prevent us from delivering their training courses to the food industry or providing ethical audit services. It certainly didn’t stop us from presenting our annual Excellence Awards last week. The Verner Wheelock

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Food pests and how to control them effectively

Not so long ago we had an adorable House Martin family nesting outside the window. It was super cute, but what wasn’t not so great is the build-up of droppings on the window sill. Bird droppings and the faeces of other animals are highly toxic. It’s bad enough outside a domestic property but you can imagine

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