ISO/IDF standard ensures milk fat content quality for all tastes
Posted on 13. Jun, 2010 by admin in News-Food
Before adding that dollop of milk to our coffee or tea, filling up a cereal bowl, or reading the ingredients of any milk-based product, many will make a choice on the fat content of milk: skimmed, semi-skimmed or whole-fat?
ISO standards progress in oil and gas sector
Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by admin in News-Chemical
ISO International Standards for the oil and gas sector are not only being increasingly adopted by regional or national standards bodies in North and South America, China, Europe, the Gulf states, Kazakhstan and Russia, but also increasingly referenced in national regulations.
ISO/IEC standard to keep laboratory testers on their toes
Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by admin in News-Pharmaceutical, Research
A new ISO/IEC standard establishes internationally harmonized requirements for verifying the competence of organizations that carry out proficiency testing of laboratories.
Nampak Flexible officially certified to deliver world-class quality
Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by admin in News-Food, News-Supply Chain
Recently, Nampak Flexible’s plant in Ndabeni, Cape Town, underwent a stringent audit to receive the BRC (British Retail Consortium) Global Standard certification. Essentially, what this means is that food packaging and other packaging materials produced by Nampak Flexible Ndabeni are of the highest worldwide standards.
New ISO RFID standard will help trace products in the supply chain
Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by admin in News-Supply Chain
For reasons of safety and reliability, the importance of being able to trace products throughout the supply chain has strongly increased in recent years. The new ISO 17367:2009 standard will help manufacturers and distributors to track products and to manage their traceability thanks to standardized RF tags.
ISO gives food manufacturers new tool to control hazards
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by admin in News-Food, News-Supply Chain
Thousands of food manufacturers worldwide stand to benefit from a newly published document in the ISO 22000 series designed to prevent and control food safety hazards. ISO technical specification ISO/TS 22002-1:2009, Prerequisite programmes on food safety – Part 1: Food manufacturing, sets out requirements for prerequisite programmes needed to realize safe products and provide food [...]