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Fruit, food poisoning and food safety

It’s finally summer time, so it’s out with the stodge and in with the fruit and salad! When you’re preparing lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, strawberries, raspberries and the like, you might encounter the odd creepy crawly. However, these can be removed easily. it’s the microscopic bacteria you can’t see that can cause serious food poisoning. That’s […]

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Why Food Safety Culture Needs to Go Beyond Compliance

Why Food Safety Training Needs to Go Beyond Compliance

Originally published in 2018. Updated in 2026 to reflect current best practice in food safety culture. If you work in the food industry, having the right training in place isn’t optional — it’s essential. As a minimum, anyone handling food for public consumption must have basic food safety training. Without it, poor hygiene practices can

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Verner Wheelock Expands with Acquisition of Ethical Audit Company

One of the UK’s leading independent food industry training consultancies has acquired a well-respected ethical auditing company. Verner Wheelock, based in Skipton, North Yorkshire, has seen the ethical auditing side of its business grow over the past couple of years. To build on this success it has now purchased ethical trade auditing company, Keith Stamp

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Chocolate production hazards – HACCP Easter everyone!

Did you know that Cadbury’s make between 40 and 50 million Easter Eggs each year? That a whole lot of eggs! As with every other large scale food manufacturing operation, chocolate producers need to have a HACCP plan in place. But first, let’s look at the various stages in producing chocolate. How chocolate is made

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Thermal Process Flavours – what are they? #savouryflavours

What is a Thermal Process Flavour? A thermal process flavour is produced by heating together two or more flavour precursors under carefully controlled conditions. It is sometimes called a ‘reaction’ flavour. Thermal process flavours are created through the Maillard reaction. This is a reaction between a nitrogen containing compound and a reducing sugar. The Maillard

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