Apologies to those who follow this blog and occasional readers too.  I have been a little bogged (sic!) down with work, house and pig matters. Well, where to start!  It has been an interesting and varied couple of months.  There is European legislation afoot to charge all food manufacturing businesses in the UK for their EHO visit.  Previously, the proposed legislation contained a small business exemption, but Brussels were voting in April to get rid of this, so there has bee

Penny Pig today 9th March 2012 Aaalgh!  I have been very quiet this past ten days or so as I have had my nose stuck deep in Issue 6 of the BRC.  Today, I am working on section 3.  Section 3.5.1.1 asks for a risk assessment to be undertaken of each raw material to identify risks to product safety, legality and quality.  There are a lot of changes to this section which are really extremely time consuming to document. Another bloomin’ risk asessment!  Aaalgh!  For anyone who is