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Duane Wood, Management Systems & Inspections Services Marketing Director at LRQA on the future of sustainable supply chains.

While tackling the issue will take a concerted effort from companies and organisations working across the sector, there are ways businesses can help to protect their customers and reputation from unnecessary harm.

Stuart Kelly, Head of Retail and Hospitality Assurance Services, discusses why adopting a tailored approach is not only highly cost effective, but also adds real value.

Consumers are clever and discerning; they want independent assurance that the food they are eating is safe and free from genetic modification, is sustainably sourced and is exactly as it claims to be on the packaging.

Our customised assurance services are non-accredited, brand protection programmes and assessment schemes to provide a holistic and integrated approach to the assurance requirements of the organisation.

Many challenges are facing the food supply chain including food fraud and emerging pathogens. At LRQA, we recognise that digitalisation can support this key area – from individual farmers to global food brands.

Five years after it was issued, Europe's prevailing standard for qualifying welders for steels has now been 'harmonised" with the Pressure Equipment Directive (2014/68/EU).

Seafood assurance has a major role to play; the benefits of sustainable fisheries and fish farming and the need to mitigate the environmental impacts of fishing and aquaculture are increasingly in the public consciousness.

With the population set to reach 8.5bn by 2030, food organisations worldwide are exploring new technologies and methods to ensure safe and sustainable supply chains.

The September 2018 deadline for organisations to transition to the revised international environmental management system [EMS] standard ISO 14001:2015 is fast approaching.