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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Food Safety & Hygiene News Food Safety TrainingOur Chairman and founder, Dr Verner Wheelock, has been researching healthy eating and the effect of diet on illness and mortality for several years. He has come to the conclusion that, contrary to Government health guidelines, which advocate a low-fat diet as being beneficial to health, a diet low in carbohydrates and containing fat is
Why the latest healthy eating initiative won’t work – Dr Wheelock’s views Read More »
Expert Spotlight Food Safety & Hygiene News Nutrition Training NewsWelcome to the September 2015 news review from Verner Wheelock As always, the ‘new term’ in September has meant that we’ve been extremely busy taking bookings for the remainder of our 2015 courses. We’ve already got several bookings for January, including our first in-house course booking for 2016. It just shows how popular our trainers are,
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Food Safety & Hygiene News Monthly UpdatesMarks & Spencer has revealed that it has now moved to unannounced supplier audits in order to create resilient supply chains. The first of these was undertaken s early as April this year and follows discussions with Institute for Global Food Security Director and author of the report into the horsemeat scandal, Professor Chris Elliott
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Auditing training Food Safety & Hygiene NewsIt doesn’t seem two ticks since it was British Food Fortnight, last year (I must be getting old!) but here it is again! Running until 4th October, British Food Fortnight is a celebration of all that is great and good about enjoying food reared and grown in this country. As Chef Raymond Blanc says “There’s
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