Food & Drink

There has never been a more challenging time for the food and drinks industry. Managing food safety risks, intense competition, rapidly changing consumer trends and pressure to reduce costs whilst increasing operating efficiencies are providing the industry with a number of competitive global challenges.

Organizations in the food and drink industry need to manage business risks, and meet legal requirements if they are to remain competitive, protect their reputation and enhance their brand. Export is vital to the success of many food and drink organizations and ever-increasing demands through legislation and customer and consumer requirements is a key driver for implementing management systems.

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Management systems are central to every aspect of your business. They are a recognized and powerful business tool that can help you to manage key activities such as product safety and quality, and the impact your business has on the environment.

Any large or small business associated with the food and drink industry can benefit from the conformity and integrity that management system standards bring to your organization.

Why certify to a management system?

An effective management system based on a proven standard will help your organization achieve its goals in critical areas such as food safety and environmental management.

Furthermore, assessment and certification of your management system by an independent third party will fully demonstrate your commitment to providing the safest and highest quality products to your customers.

ISO 22000 Food safety

ISO 22000 is an international standard that defines the requirements of a food safety management system covering all organizations in the food chain from “farm to fork”.

BRC Global standard - food

The standard covers a comprehensive scope of product safety areas, as well as the legal and due diligence responsiblities of both the supplier and the retailer.

BRC/IoP Global standard - Packaging

The standard provides a common basis for the certification of companies supplying packaging to manufacturers and retailers.

HACCP

HACCP is a risk management tool recognized internationally for use in the proactive management of food safety issues. A HACCP system helps you to focus on the hazards that affect food safety through hazard identification and to establish critical control limits at critical points during the production process.

BS 25999 Business Continuity

BS 25999 provides a basis for understanding, developing and implementing business continuity within your organization and gives you confidence in business-to-business and business-to customer dealings.

ISO 9001 Quality

ISO 9001 can help bring out the best in your organization by enabling you to understand your processes for delivering your products/services to your customers.

ISO 14001 Environment

ISO 14001 is an internationally recognized standard designed to address the delicate balance between maintaining profitability and reducing environmental impact.

EMAS

The Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) is a voluntary EU initiative designed to improve your company's environmental performance.

OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health & Safety

An OHSMS promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing a framework that allows your organization to consistently identify and control its health and safety risks, reduce the potential for accidents, aid legislative compliance and improve overall performance.

ISO 27001 Information Security

ISO/IEC 27001 is the only auditable international standard which defines the requirements for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). The standard is designed to ensure the selection of adequate and proportionate security controls.

ISO/IEC 20000 IT Service

Certification to this international standard enables you to independently demonstrate to your customers that you meet IT service management best practice.

SA 8000 Social Accountability

There is increasing demand from consumers and pressure groups for organizations to look into their supply chains and ensure that raw materials and processed products are being produced with due regard for the culture and human rights of those from whom they are being sourced. Having a social accountability management system independently verified will provide stakeholders with the assurance that an organization is demonstrating good practice in relation to social accountability and human rights.

PAS 99 Integrated Management

Integrated Management Systems provide a cost and time effective way of managing several management systems at once. This can be used to integrate the traditional suite of Health and Safety, Quality or Environment, or in implementing a tailored approach to include other standards such as Food Safety Management (ISO 22000).

PAS 220 Food Safety

Providing best practice for Prerequisite programmes on food safety for food manufacturing

ISO 10002 Customer satisfaction, complaints

The customer satisfaction standard, ISO 10002:2004, is the guideline standard for implementing a complaints management system and helps organizations to identify, manage and understand how successfully they deal with their customers' complaints.

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