British Retail Consortium
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has developed a technical standard for those companies supplying retailer branded food products.
The standard has been developed to assist retailers in their fulfilment of legal obligations and protection of the consumer, by providing a common basis for the inspection of companies supplying retailer branded food products.
It has encompassed the fundamental principles of the retailers' current standards and is intended to be incorporated into standards used by third party inspection bodies. It is not intended to replace the requirement of any legislation, where this legislation requires a higher standard for a specific industry sector.
The standard will be reviewed on a regular basis by the BRC membership and revised, where considered appropriate.
The standard requires:
- the adoption of HACCP;
- a documented quality management system;
- control of factory environment standard, product, process and personnel.
The standard provides for a certificate of inspection to be awarded at one of two levels; Foundation Level and Higher Level.
There is considerable demand from the large UK retailers for producers to be certified as conforming to the BRC specification.
NSAI is offering inspection against the requirements of the BRC specification for food producers . This service is provided in accordance with the requirements of EN 45004. Applications should be made directly to NSAI.
The The BRC Technical Standard and Protocol for Companies Supplying Retailer Branded Food Products is available from:
British Retail Consortium
5 Grafton Street
London WIX 3LB
Contact at NSAI:
Vincent Delaney
Operations Manager
Food/Agriculture
tel: 353 61 332882
fax: 353 61 332982
email: Vincent Delaney
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