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Food processors transform primary products and deliver transformed products to other processors (ingredients) or to the retailers (finished products).

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Purpose

Food processors need reliable ingredients, and are very often the owner of the finished product’s brands. Also when the finished product is "private label", the processors share responsibility with the retailer (private label owner).

Ensuring quality and safety is key to the competitiveness of the food industry players, and the survival of brands, food producers, and companies. Therefore, managing risk has become a central requirement for those operating along the entire food production chain, from farmers, fishermen and growers to food processors, retailers, distributors and storage, and transport companies.

Managing risk is essential for everyone in the food industry who works to guarantee quality and safety in any segment of the food chain.

Benefits

Several tools can help you to ensure food safety by identifying and managing risks:

  • HACCP is a risk management tool specifically designed for the food industry in order to assure food safety. It is a structured, preventive approach to food safety to optimise efforts to provide the consumer with safe food. Certification to this standard changes your company approach from retroactive quality testing to a preventive way of thinking.

  • ISO 22000 is a fundamental standard that enables any company to identify relevant risks and to manage them efficiently, both from a food safety and cost effectiveness point of view. It provides a systematic approach covering any segment of the food chain, including restaurants and catering, packaging, equipment and chemicals manufacturers, and service providers such as pest control, laundry, transport and logistics.

  • The BRC (British Retail Consortium) global standards for food and packaging and the IFS (International Food Standard) are safety system standards created to ensure supplier compliance and secure the retailers’ ability to guarantee the quality and safety of the food products that they sell.

  • FPA-SAFE: The FPA-SAFE programme was designed by leading food companies to meet the global food industry's audit needs. FPA-SAFE provides a reliable, comprehensive assessment of a company's entire food quality and safety system, while reducing the time and expenses associated with redundant supplier audits.