Laboratory Oversight and Troubleshooting
Laboratory Review: We carry out both internal and external laboratory reviews. We can help with audit preparation if you have an internal laboratory and are seeking accreditation. Do you have complete confidence in your laboratory? We can review their procedures and working practices to help put your mind at rest. Have you had results from your lab and you are questioning what it means or the accuracy of the result.
Testing Schedule Review: Are you getting the best value from the microbiological testing you carry out? Yvonne can review your testing schedule and advise on how to put your results to best use or perhaps even save money. We can also help ensure you are meeting customer and legal requirements.
Legal microbiological criteria have been set for some, but not all, combinations of food and microorganism. If a relevant legal microbiological criterion does not exist, guideline microbiological criteria can be used to assess the acceptability of food.
For more information on the legal requirements:
https://www.fsai.ie/food_businesses/micro_criteria/guideline_micro_criteria.html
https://www.fsai.ie/food_businesses/micro_criteria/reg_2073_05.html
What People are Saying
Working with Yvonne has greatly supplemented the food safety capabilities in our organisation. Her flexibility, professional approach, technical excellence and vast experience, along with her positive and proactive style are a joy to work with and I would thoroughly recommend her support!!
I have had worked with Yvonne on different projects related to Microbiology, Quality and Microbiological Audit program and some other project connect to food quality in Microbiology analytical sciences codification and program management. Yvonne has many professional skills & qualities and a real sense of human contact. Yvonne always delivers high performance and precise results in all her projects we work together. Thanks to her reactivity and sense of initiative, the projects were always on top and beyond. Yvonne is fully committed to her projects and always open to discussions She is a very attentive partner in any collaborative study you can participate with her. I really enjoy collaborating with Yvonne. I recommend Yvonne highly not only for trust professional projects management but also because it’s very enjoyable to work with her.
I have had the pleasure of working with Yvonne on a number of food safety writing projects. I had an excellent working relationship with Yvonne. She set out clear goals in advance and comprehensively discussed the findings in a succinct manor, that was of immense benefit to the efficiency of the projects. I would highly recommend her.
Yvonne is excellent with a wealth of knowledge and experience in food safety. She delivered a great food safety management system during her time at the seafood company and I would highly recommend her. She is super professional and also very efficient in everything she does.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Yvonne prior to her consultancy (as a consultant myself) and since swapping roles she has provided us with food safety support for a variety of topics. She’s one of the rare group of experts who can combine a robust scientific risk assessment approach with practical operational knowledge to guide optimal evidence-based risk management decisions. I have no hesitation in recommending her to food safety colleagues.