{"id":8961,"date":"2024-06-07T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/?p=8961"},"modified":"2024-06-07T14:47:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T19:47:54","slug":"rqa-celebrates-35-years-helping-organizations-prepare-for-the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/rqa-celebrates-35-years-helping-organizations-prepare-for-the-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"RQA Celebrates 35 Years Helping Organizations Prepare for the Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-mobile alignright wp-image-8967 size-medium\" title=\"World Food Safety Day 2024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFSD-2024-logo-300x259.png\" alt=\"World Food Safety Day 2024\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFSD-2024-logo-300x259.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-content\/uploads\/WFSD-2024-logo.png 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>World Food Safety Day<\/strong> is being recognized on June 7, 2024, and this year\u2019s theme is \u201c<em>Food Safety: Prepare For The Unexpected<\/em>\u201d. The focus is on inspiring action to prepare for food safety incidents no matter how mild or severe they may be. Food safety incidents impact consumer health, livelihoods, businesses and brand reputation, however, organizations can be ready if this is prioritized around the world to protect the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>RQA supports this theme by providing consulting, training, and on demand field services to our clients throughout the year, not just on World Food Safety Day. Some thought starters for your organization to consider are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying and vetting a trusted partner to support product recall, market withdrawal and effectiveness checks and compliant retrievals<\/li>\n<li>Developing proactive quality programs, such as supplier monitoring and supplier scorecards to ensure quality is always front of mind<\/li>\n<li>Conducting surveillance audits to assess quality at point of purchase and consumption to build understanding of consumer\/customer experience and expectations<\/li>\n<li>Providing focused training to build the skillset of staff and leadership teams including food safety culture, recall simulations, crisis simulations, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Assessing your Food Safety Culture journey and building a multi-year plan to continuously improve<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No matter who you are or what you do, <em>YOU play an important role<\/em> in making sure food is safe to eat. Food Safety Is Everyone\u2019s Business! Are you ready for the unexpected?<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to learn more, contact Cheryl Alesso (<a class=\"link-blue\" href=\"mailto:c.alesso@rqa-inc.com\">c.alesso@rqa-inc.com<\/a>) or Brian Giannini (<a class=\"link-blue\" href=\"mailto:b.giannini@rqa-inc.com\">b.giannini@rqa-inc.com<\/a>) to discuss how RQA can help your organization prepare for the unexpected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RQA Celebrates 35 Years Preparing for the Unexpected<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plan, Prepare, Act! 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The focus is on inspiring action to prepare for food safety incidents no matter how mild or severe they may be. Food safety incidents impact consumer health, livelihoods, businesses and brand reputation, however,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rqa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8961"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9001,"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8961\/revisions\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rqa-inc.com\/na\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}