By Diego Ayala.   Do you remember the first audit you did? Was it satisfactory? was it frustrating? was it friendly? Was it effective? Did you feel that you did not do your job because you did not leave non-conformities, or did you leave delighted because you left quite a few non-conformities? Indeed, before starting

Authors: D. Peña and C. Valenzuela.   The quest for a more sustainable future has become a global priority, and one key concept in this effort is “Net Zero.” This approach is becoming a cornerstone of environmental policies and organizational strategies worldwide.   What is Net Zero?   The concept of “Net Zero” implies that

Author: Mario Quintana   “Organizations want to work and collaborate with companies that can be trusted, and that trust is built with a company culture of doing the right thing […] “   This is according to Howard Shaw, the former ISO 309 technical committee chairman who developed this standard.   In a constantly developing

Authors: D. Peña and C. Valenzuela   The world of work has become such a fast-paced, ever-changing environment that organizations must be able to keep up with the pace and even stay one step ahead to preserve the safety and health of their employees.   Under the current scenario, data from the International Labor Organization

Throughout the years, labor’s evolution has been a great driver of products and services in competitive markets, but at what cost? Some organizations have taken advantage of their most valuable resource: their personnel. To reduce operating costs, they violate legal and regulatory aspects associated with working conditions, such as child labor, forced labor, and discrimination,

BY: Indra Mendoza, Global Standard Auditor.     Every organization, regardless of whether it is small or large, faces external and internal factors that take away certainty from the possibility of achieving its objectives. This effect of lack of certainty is a risk, and it is inherent to all activities (Kevin W. Knight, 2009).  

 Author: Santiago Gonzalez Esparza, Eng.   With the exponential growth of information technologies in recent years, different tools have emerged that modify the way we work; minimizing the time it takes to execute an action and opening new perspectives on how to solve a particular problem. Among all these tools, there is one that has

By Luciareli Garcia, Global Standards Auditor   The FSSC 22000 scheme is made up of three elements, the base standard of ISO 22000, the prerequisites for each category of the food chain (based on technical specifications for the sector e.g. ISO/TS 22002-x; PAS xyz); and additional requirements set by GFSI stakeholders.   The additional requirements

IIA. Marlem Guadalupe Diaz Alvarado: Safety Coordinator, Global Standards   As time goes by, food safety and quality standards have become more demanding. An example of this is the FSSC Foundation: FSSC 22000, which has presented a new version to standardize the categories of the food chain according to the recently published one ISO 22003-1:2022

Since the ancient pre-Columbian civilizations, there was knowledge created by experience, which allowed us to understand how flowers, fruits, and vegetables develop in an environment and the relationship-benefit that is obtained when this environment allows us to gather certain characteristics such as crop rotation, associated crops, soil rest and the food chain of animals to