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The economic impact for manufacturing sites operating to BRCGS certification
Food safety standards have been developed over the last 20 years to provide a system of third-party assurance that food from any source is safe. Incidents of unsafe foods finding…
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Accreditation unlocking the potential of cassava to promote economic development and fight hunger and poverty
…background that before now it was perceived as a staple food. To assure food security and spur industrial development, the consideration of cassava as a ‘poverty fighter’ was adopted. Cassava…
Standards have a positive effect on Chinese food exports
Using a new database on standards in China, the authors estimate the impact of voluntary and mandatory standards–either harmonized to international norms or purely domestic–on Chinese food exports. The dataset…
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Combined implementation of ISO 22000 and ISO 9001, proves a favourable effect on companies’ performance in Europe (2013)
…ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 standards and competitive performance of certified food companies, explaining a significant proportion of variance in their performance. Therefore, motivating non‐certified food companies to effectively adopt…
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FSSC 22000 accepted by the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA).
In its supervision of individual businesses in the food production sector, the NVWA takes into consideration whether or not the business is certified by a safety assurance scheme that has…
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Mutual recognition of certification has significant effect on trade in the food, beverage and tobacco industry
…trade. They focus on the food, beverage and tobacco industry and use augmented gravity models for the 2000-2008 period. Their results show that quality management certifications are positively correlated with…
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ISO 22000 certified dairy companies significantly outperform the non-certified (2015)
…which safe food is provided, minimise the possibility of food non-conformities and scandals, increase market share and consequently withstand downturn. Overall the paper identifies that by implementing the HACCP FSS…
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Food factory saves over $528,000 in energy costs with ISO 50001
As one of the top three producers of premium pineapples with the largest facility in the world, Great Giant Pineapple (GGP) in Indonesia implemented ISO 50001 to improve energy performance….
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Charity saves $6k with ISO 50001
…Food Banks. BA is based in Lisbon and distributes about 9.500 tonnes of food per year to more than 70.000 people in the area of Lisbon. The charity decided to…
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Standards support business competitiveness in Colombia (2018)
…carried out in 2011. The economic contribution of the standards in organizations such as Gerfor (tube systems, large size organization), Doria (food, large size organization) and Vilaseca (food, medium size…