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Quality Control
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BRCGS vs IFS Food: Which Certification Does Your Buyer Actually Require?
BRCGS Food Safety or IFS Food: which scheme your buyer actually requires by market, audit format, version 8 changes and certificate scope.
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What is the difference between documentary, identity and physical checks?
These are the three levels of official control applied to consignments entering the Union under Regulation (EU) 2017/625. They are cumulative in…
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How to Write a Frozen Vegetable Specification That Holds Up at Intake
A working structure for a frozen vegetable specification: identity, sensory, physical, chemical, microbiological, packaging and the sampling plan. What each block must…
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Pesticide MRLs for Frozen Vegetables: Reading the Rules, the Sampling and the Certificate
Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 sets one framework and thousands of numbers. This guide covers which limit applies to a frozen vegetable, how…
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What is HACCP?
HACCP, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, finds the food safety hazards in a process and controls them at set points. The…
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What is the cold chain?
The cold chain is the unbroken run of temperature-controlled steps from freezing to use. What it covers for quick-frozen fruit and who…
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IQF Freezing Explained: How Individually Quick Frozen Fruit Is Made
How IQF freezing works step by step, which parameters buyers should specify, and how the process shows up in grade, drip loss…
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Food Safety Standards for Food Suppliers: How the Schemes Fit Together
How HACCP, ISO 22000 and the GFSI-benchmarked schemes relate to each other, which one a buyer is likely to require, and how…
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Cold Chain Management for Frozen Exports: Controls That Hold Up in a Dispute
How to design and document a frozen cold chain from tunnel exit to buyer intake, including monitoring, handover responsibility and deviation handling.
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How to Source Frozen Fruit: From Specification to First Container
The order of operations for sourcing frozen fruit: define the specification first, qualify on evidence, sample against the spec, then contract -…