Whatever the size of your business, ensuring the effective control of food allergens is a significant concern for most food businesses. There is a reported increase in people living with food allergies and stringent regulatory requirements. Meaning it is paramount that food businesses invest in robust allergen controls. For this blog we’d like to delve …
Communication is always a challenge whether you employ 5 or 5,000! From our experience, it always features at, or near the top of the list of topics for attention when working with clients to improve their culture. We often find that employees are much more interested in hearing about what’s going on than their management …
Why refresh your HACCP training? Refresher training is not just about getting a new certificate, although this is useful to show auditors. It is also about maintaining competency and confidence in how to effectively design, manage, and maintain your HACCP system. Although HACCP has been around for several decades now, standards and best practices do …
What are the common HACCP mistakes? Have you ever done our Level 3 HACCP quiz? It’s a simple 10 multiple-choice question test which has been completed a staggering 24,000 times since its launch in January 2019! We’ve recently updated the quiz and done some analysis of the previous answers to identify the common HACCP errors. …
We’re celebrating 20 years of Adele Adams Associates Adele founded Adele Adams Associates in 2003. As we’re in our 20th year of business, we asked her ‘How did Adele Adams Associates begin?’ What prompted you to start Adele Adams Associates? I have a degree in food science and had worked in technical roles in food …
Reissued Codex 2023 You may recall that in the 2020 update of the Codex HACCP Guideline, the CCP decision tree was removed for updating, it has now been amended and reissued. Firstly, don’t panic! Especially if you’re just about to do a HACCP course and exam – it will take a while before the awarding …
Our Level 4 courses are very popular with our open courses often selling out. Want to know why our courses are getting such great results? Have a look at the following 8 reasons to choose us for your next Level 4 course: 1. Â Award winning courses We won a third Top Student Award from Highfield …
We’ve scored a hat trick! We’re delighted to announce that our delegate, Dr Elliot Erskine from Intelligent Growth Solutions Ltd, has won Highfield’s Top Student Award for 2023. The award recognises the student who achieved the highest marks in the Level 4 HACCP for Management course, between April 2022 and March 2023. Elliot joined our …
Food fraud can be very local It’s easy to think that the greatest risk of food fraud lies in complex, global supply chains involving known higher risk countries. However, recent issues around the fraudulent provenance of meat are stark reminders that food fraud can be very local. The industry has put in significant efforts since …
How to decide which Food Defence course to choose: With the release of the BRCGS V9, there is a requirement for the whole VACCP/TACCP team to be trained on the principles of food defence and also your site-specific risk assessments. Â As we have a couple of options for you, it can be difficult for you …
What is Live Online Training?Live Online Training has a live tutor training during the course using our learning platform Achieve. The course follows the same programme as the traditional face-to-face course, but it’s just the trainer is remote. We can still provide all the interactive group discussions and exercises via breakout rooms.
To find out more about our Live online training, have a look at our ‘What is Live Online Training?’ guide.