Auditing and Certification
Our independent third party certification services will help you stand out from the crowd. As an experienced food certification body we offer you more than a certificate.
We have the expertise, experience and global presence to support and guide you through the entire auditing and certification process, helping you to meet the challenges and maximise the benefits. We’re accredited to award certification for a broad range of standards considered worldwide benchmarks for best practice in the food industry. Our programmes include Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) endorsed schemes from ISO, International Featured Standards (IFS), British Retail Consortium (BRC) and Safe Quality Foods (SQF), as well as a range of other nationally and internationally recognised standards.
Whether you’re aiming to establish sustainability credentials, or you need to demonstrate the safety and quality of your production processes, our services will help enhance your brand image, build consumer confidence and open the way to new market opportunities.
- Product Certification
- Systems & Process Certification
- Social & Environmental Certification
- Second Party Auditing
Demonstrates your commitment to quality and open up new market opportunities. Product certification programmes we offer, include national standards such as British Retail Consortium (BRC), Global Standards and the German Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification. The programme you choose will depend on the market you serve and your role in the supply chain.
We’re also accredited to award international certification standards such as International Featured Standards (IFS).
FSSC22000 is a GFSI approved, ISO based scheme, designed to offer a holistic food safety standard in a single package, making it accessible to organisations of all sizes. As an accredited ISO certification body, we can help you develop your systems and processes to achieve certification. ISO22000 is a globally accepted standard designed to cover all aspects of food safety including internationally recognised components HACCP and ISO9001.
We can also work with you to implement Good Catering Practice (GCP) and Good Manufacturing Practice programmes (GMP).
We offer internationally recognised certifications of sustainable including GLOBALG.A.P offers guidance on sustainable production practices, animal welfare, and worker health and safety. The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) blue label is a widely recognized, independent and impartial mark of sustainability that will differentiate your product in the eyes of retailers and consumers.
Complementing our GMO testing and detection services, our industry recognised non-GMO certification programme can help you verify that your processes and products are entirely GMO free.
Evaluating your suppliers or facilities against your own quality, safety, or security requirements will bring your entire supply chain to a higher level of reliability. Bespoke 2nd party auditing programmes allow you to assess supply chain, to your own specific standards.
As an auditor with decades of experience serving the food industry, we can help you develop and implement internal auditing programmes to improve the safety, quality and efficiency of your entire operation.
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