Cert ID Europe has responded to the growing need to assist food manufacturers of all sizes to benchmark and gain the confidence that their manufacturing systems and procedures demonstrate food safety and legal compliance. For small and some medium sized manufacturers‘heavy duty’ standards such as the BRC just don’t fit; it creates what can be a daunting and cumbersome burden. To meet the need, Cert ID has created a standard to meet the market demand helping organisations of all sizes to satisfy legal obligations.
Who is the Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence Programme for?
The Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence Standard is applicable for two main groups of food and drink manufacturers.
Firstly, the standard is appropriate for smaller companies striving to demonstrate the effectiveness of their food safety management. Cert ID understands the resource issues customer audits and third party audits of standards such as the BRC can have on smaller companies, especially with timing and price. The Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence programme reduces audit time and cost by focusing on essential issues to reduce the average audit time without compromising on rigour.
Secondly, the Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence programme can act as great supplier audit for bigger companies who have BRC for example, but their suppliers do not. The programme can even consolidate all of your supplier audits into one scheme. This can be adopted into your own Food Safety Due Diligence system when approving your suppliers, so that the work and time is reduced for your supplier audits. The Food Safety Due Diligence audit can also be managed seamlessly through the Minerva Supplier Online Management System provided by Cert ID’s sister company, FoodChain Europe.
What does the Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence audit and standard cover?
The Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence standard covers all the necessary requirements which feature in a modern food safety audit, such as:
Management Controls and HACCP
Quality Management System
Site Premises
Process Control
Transport and Distribution
Personal Hygiene
Training
Product Testing and Analysis
What makes the Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence Programme special?
The Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence Standard is unique when compared to other safe and legal programmes because it covers areas of legal updates, labelling, product claims and recall procedures.
This standard is the product of ‘original thinking’ distilled from food safety experts in the business and perfected by auditors in practice to be highly appropriate for modern food manufactures of all sizes to succeed in a competitive market.
If you are interested in finding out more about the Cert ID Food Safety Due Diligence programme or you wish to receive a free copy of the Standard, then contact Louise on (0)+44 1675 475607 or louise.luderman@cert-id.eu
