Property, commercial and speciality re/insurer IQUW, which has a presence in Bermuda, has appointed RQA Group to be its retained crisis consultants globally for its recently launched specialty product.
Up to half of all food and drink recalls could be prevented by avoiding ‘never events’, easily preventable packaging and labelling mistakes that trigger an allergen related recall, management consultancy RQA has claimed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has failed to impact food safety, but uncertainty still surrounds its effect on food safety culture and fraud, according to management consultancy RQA Group.
Research by the group found that there had been a reduced number of recalls in most regions for at least a few months of the pandemic. Of the businesses it interviewed, almost half said they did not think COVID-19 had impacted food safety.
However, almost a third of respondents said they did feel food safety had been affected. The report also found that almost three quarters of businesses covered had been forced to cancel audits due to the pandemic and just over one third had cancelled food safety training.