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WHY USE THE BRC GLOBAL STANDARD?

BRAND CONFIDENCE

  • Protects your brand and consumer

  • Ensure your customers maintain confidence in your food safety programme and supply chain management

  • Accepted and specified by many retailers, manufacturers, ingredients companies, food service organisations and raw material processors worldwide as part of their supplier approval process

  • Use certification as a marketing tool by displaying our logo on your publicity materials, stationery and website

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ACHIEVABLE AND COST EFFECTIVE

  • Designed to reflect best practice and provide a common sense, risk-based approach to product safety and certification

  • There is a straightforward certification process which means there are no hidden costs.

  • Reduce waste, complaints, recalls and rejected products

  • Global recognition of the Standard by customers and the portable nature of the product with additional modules reduce audit burden

The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety is developed by food industry experts from retailers, manufacturers and food service organisations to ensure it is a rigorous and detailed, yet easy to understand the BRC Global Standard.  First published in 1998 it is now in its 9th issue and well established globally defined by many leading global specifiers. 

 

It provides a framework to manage product safety, integrity, legality and quality, and the operational controls for these criteria, in the food and food ingredient manufacturing, processing and packing industry.

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The BRC Global Standard focuses on:

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  • The importance of management commitment and food safety culture

  • HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) based food safety programmes

  • Quality management systems

  • Auditing good manufacturing processes – it is not just a paperwork audit

  • Auditing areas which often have the highest rate of product recalls and withdrawals, such as labelling and packing

  • Developing systems to reduce exposure to food fraud

  • Ensuring consistency of the audit process

  • Providing a BRC Global Standard that is portable enough to allow Additional Modules to be added to reduce audit burden

  • Promoting greater resilience, transparency and traceability in the supply chain

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THE NEW VERSION 9 IS AUDITED AGAINST FROM 1ST OF FEBRUARY 2023

GET READY!

 

For more information on how to achieve certification against the Standard please do not hesitate to contact us.  Following you request, our consultants will get in contact to advise on best practice for your business and the way forward. We work closely with our clients to ensure  compliance is achieved first time, every time.

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Steps to certification

Free initial consultation One of our expert consultant will call you to discuss your needs and assess the best way forward. This service is free with no obligation. Use our contact form to provide the details needed.

Gap analysis One of our mentors will review your current systems against the requirements of the standard to identify gaps and areas for improvement. A report with the findings will be produced, including an action plan.

System development If you don't have the expertise within your company, our team will develop all required documentation to fulfill the requirements of the standard from scratch. The system will be tailor made to cover your processes and practices.

Support and mentoring On site visits to provide mentoring and support with the effective implementation of the system. We are always on hand to assist in any way possible our clients, in order to ensure a smooth transition to the new systems.

Ongoing support & auditing Achieving certification is not the end game. We provide ongoing support to established systems in order to maintain their effective implementation and comply with the standard's requirements of internal auditing.

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