Quality management

In February 2024, IFS Broker version 3.2 was launched. This standard focuses on companies in the food industry and assesses the processes of intermediaries in the supply chain.

The consequences of climate change make it a pressing issue that will increasingly rise on the agenda of companies, today and in the future.

From 1 January 2022, new organic legislation, Regulation 2018/848, applies. This replaces the previous regulation (834/2007), which dated from 2009. Curious about the changes? Read on to find out...

More and more young children suffer from some form of allergy: latex, food, animals, pollen... but how does an allergy work, and how can you prevent an allergic reaction?

ISO 9001 is the best-known and most widely used standard for quality management systems. Naturally, standards like this must evolve over time, just like your organisation, and occasionally need an update. So what are the differences between the ISO standard from 2008 and the one from 2015?

Several Belgian and foreign food companies were threatened in 2019 with the poisoning of their products using the dangerous substance oleandrin.

Until recently, every employee in the animal primary sector had to demonstrate, by means of a medical certificate, that their state of health allowed them to come into direct contact with foodstuffs. This requirement was set out in Annex II of the Royal Decree of 13 July 2014 on food hygiene.

Bakers can no longer make and store an artisanal rice tart if they have to comply with the FASFC's requirements.
It all comes down to one of the basic ingredients, namely milk.
The whole discussion essentially revolves around two issues: the preparation process and the storage of the rice tarts, says Bart Thomassen of the professional federation for bakers in Flanders.