Vince Shiers 
As with every emerging industry, the cannabis industry has unique risks and regulatory grey areas. The market for cannabis products is growing fast and recalls are already a fairly regular occurrence. So, if you are keen to know your hemp from your marijuana, your phytocannabinoids from your endocannabinoids, and want to understand the current regulatory … Read more
Perigon Product Recall has selected RQA Group, leading experts in product recall support and crisis management, to be their retained crisis consultants for its global product recall insurance business. RQA Group will provide services to Perigon Product Recall’s policy holders including: Pre-incident risk management services 24/7 incident support Product risk engineering advice “We are very … Read more
Click below to download our latest round up of the global product recall data and our analysis across food, consumer products and automotive. A key finding from this period is that the number of different foods recalled in 2022 is set to be 60% higher than in 2021 according to the US FDA data. This … Read more
In the past week, the US FDA has issued import alerts for: • human and animal foods for pesticides• foods containing illegal and/or undeclared colors• seafood products due to the presence of salmonella• food products due to the presence of salmonella• honey and blended syrup due to unsafe drug residues• dried peppers from Mexico• papaya from … Read more
BluNiche – the Product Recall MGA recently launched by NuVenture International Ltd – has retained RQA Group, leading product risk and crisis management experts, to provide 24/7 incident response and pre-incident consulting & training services for their product recall policyholders. RQA will also offer risk engineering support to the underwriters and claims team at BluNiche. … Read more
The latest BRC Global Food Safety standard issue 9 has just been published. Two core themes of the new issue are developing food safety culture and building core competencies. We work with food manufacturers across all areas of food safety and risk, with a particular focus on product recall, and so have reviewed the changes … Read more
We are very pleased that Property, Commercial and Speciality (re)insurer IQUW has selected RQA Group to be its retained crisis consultants globally for its recently launched Specialty Product Recall cover. To read the full press release from IQUW click below
Today, the European Commission published its 2021 report of the Alert and Cooperation Network which is composed of the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF), the Administrative Assistance and Cooperation system (AAC) and the Food Fraud Network (FFN). It is designed to facilitate the exchange of information and the cooperation on official controls … Read more
The UK Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) recently published a report on AI and product safety. This is an in-depth report worthy of a full read. We have extracted some high level points from the report, go to the end for a link to download the full report. Opportunities and benefits The … Read more
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