If you are in a sustainability department, supply chain management or procurement, you’ve probably seen it happen: when asked to pass a sustainability audit, some suppliers do whatever they can …
Preventing Product Fraud: IFS publishes practical Guide
In the past few years, almost every standard for food and consumer goods safety has incorporated additional requirements for combatting product fraud. This has left certified sites with many questions …
BRC Food Issue 8: New Clauses and Changes
On August 1, 2018, BRC published a new version of its Food Safety Standard. After a transition phase of six months, the BRC Food Standard Issue 8 will replace Issue …
Sustainability: Important Update of AA1000 Accountability Principles Standard now available
On May 10, AccountAbility published a new version of its AA1000 AcountAbility Principles Standard (AA1000AP: 2018). The standard is not only a commonly referenced framework for sustainability management, but also …
Anti-Bribery: Vivo Energy Obtains Our First ISO 37001 Certificate
After a successful audit on March 14, DQS CFS GmbH is delighted to issue its first ever ISO 37001 certificate to VIVO Energy in The Netherlands. We would like to …
Keeping Risk Management Simple with the Revised ISO 31001:2018
ISO 31001:2018 Risk Management – Guidelines; the long awaited revision to the go-to risk management standard was published on February 15th, 2018. This development reflects the importance risk management has …