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No flies on us! Keeping them out of food production facilities

No flies on us!There’s a fly buzzing around the office as I’m trying to write this blog post. It’s batting against the window and trying to dive-bomb me. In short, it’s being a complete nuisance. Flies are annoying in an office environment, but in a food manufacturing and processing environment, they can cause far greater […]

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10 August 2016

Restaurant owner jailed over use of allergen in food

Recently a restaurant owner was jailed for six years for the manslaughter of a customer. No, there were no guns or knives involved. There hadn’t been a brawl. He hadn’t laced his food with cyanide. What he did do, however, was ignore a customer’s request about how his food was prepared. Paul Wilson, who suffered from

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31 May 2016

Verner Wheelock Excellence Awards 2015 – the winners revealed

Forget the Golden Globes, the Oscars and the National Television Awards… BAFTA? Scmafta! The only awards we’re interested in at Verner Wheelock are those concerned with the safety of the food we eat. So it is with great pride that we are able to reveal the winners of the very first Verner Wheelock Excellence Awards.

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25 January 2016

Let’s talk turkey this Thanksgiving #foodsafety

Over 45 million turkeys will have been consumed in the USA this Thursday as families and friends tuck into a traditional Thanksgiving meal. Not unlike our Christmas dinner (although they seem to have bypassed the sprouts) the centrepiece of the Thanksgiving meal is a large roasted turkey accompanied by mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce and

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27 November 2015

Don’t like the 5p bag charge? – Here’s when you can avoid it

Well, it’s been over a fortnight since supermarkets and major retailers began charging for carrier bags – and who could have predicted the extremes that some people would go to in order to avoid paying 5 pence for a plastic bag. There have been stories of stolen baskets and trolleys, theft of stronger 10 pence

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27 October 2015