BRC

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BRC

Food safety as an objective

In reaction to the many food scares that have occurred in recent times, such as the BSE infected beef, the salmonella contamination of poultry and eggs, high levels of listeria in diary products, the BRC (the British Retail Consortium, a UK trade organization that represents the interests of the UK retailers) has published the BRC – Global Food Standard, that sets the minimum standard of hygiene in food manufacturing plants.

The BRC – Global Food Standard is designed for any supplier, regardless of product or country of origin, that supplies food product to the UK retailers. Compliance to this scheme is not a legal requirement but it has been highly recommended by the UK retailers. To comply with the standard, the food supplier/manufacturer must adopt three main criteria in their management system:

The adoption and implementation of HACCP
A documented and effective quality management system
Control of factory environment standards, products, processes and personnel

Certifying your food management system against the BRC – Global Food Standard requirements will bring the following benefits to your organization:

Enhances your food safety and food safety management system
Demonstrates your commitment to producing / trading safe food
Gain recognition and acceptance from the UK retailer community
Increases your customers/consumers product safety and quality confidence
Improves your new market/ new customer perspectives
Reduces the number of supplier assessments

Providing certification, testing and verification services to the Food industry is one of the core businesses of SGS. In the last 125 years, SGS has expanded its Food operations in 140 countries and set up more than 800 laboratories.

SGS’s unrivalled team of registered lead auditors will relay this experience to you to deliver the most meaningful and professional audits, and to assist you in meeting your food safety objectives, where possible.

To date, more than 2,000 small, medium and international companies have chosen SGS as their certifying body to perform the audit of their Food Safety Management System against leading food safety standards such as BRC, EurepGAP, HACCP, SQF and GMP, confirming SGS as the world’s preferred certifying body for food standards.

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