BRC/ IFS Food Pre-audit and Certification

Tổng quan về Tổng quan về Tiêu chuẩn Global GAP

  1. BRC là gì?

BRC là bộ tiêu chuẩn toàn cầu về an toàn thực phẩm dành cho các nhà sản xuất thực phẩm cung cấp dịch vụ bán lẻ có thương hiệu tại Vương quốc Anh do Hiệp hội các nhà bán lẻ Anh-BRC thiết lập .

BRT là viết tắt của BRC Global Standard for Food Safety . Phiên bản mới nhất của tiêu chuẩn này là phiên bản thứ 6 được ban hành vào tháng 7/2011. BRC được sử dụng rộng rãi trên toàn thế giới, hỗ trợ doanh nghiệp sản xuất thực phẩm an toàn. Khi thiết lập và đáp ứng các tiêu chuẩn BRC, tổ chức có hệ thống quản lý an toàn thực phẩm có thể tạo ra một môi trường rủi ro thấp liên quan đến an toàn thực phẩm để có thể đáp ứng nhu cầu của khách hàng và quy định của pháp luật.

Các môn học áp dụng

Tiêu chuẩn BRC được áp dụng cho các tổ chức bao gồm: các đơn vị/công ty/nhà máy hoạt động trong ngành thực phẩm (ví dụ: thủy sản, rau quả, đồ uống, rượu, dầu ăn,…). Để sản phẩm thực phẩm có thể thâm nhập thị trường, hầu hết các quốc gia đều yêu cầu các tổ chức phải tuân thủ nghiêm ngặt tiêu chuẩn này.

3.Why must enterprises meet BRC standard?
Due to pressure from customers, especially European customers as well as pressure from socio development trend. Besides, it can be resulted from economic benefit and leaderboard guidance or company assurance.


Advantages of BRC/ IFS Food

The following benefits are those BRC/ IFS Food brings about for your enterprise:
• Qualified and safe products for consumers.
• Create competitiveness, enhance brand image, and facilitate to export products.
• Save cost, increase revenue and profit.
• Liberate the job of centralized leadership. Help leaders spend more time focusing on implementing the macro strategy.
• Help operating systematically, promote union spirit, and staff work in a comfortable environment.
• Increased labor productivity.

BRC/ IFS Food Pre-audit and Certification Process

Set up BRC Project Board: Pre-audit agency/ unit instruct the organization to set up BRC Project Board (same as ISO Board). Members of Project Board will be chosen by the customer. Appointed people are usually head of departments/ offices.
Standard pre-audit: Pre-audit for members of Project Board: pre-audit of standard awareness, standard requirements and instructing practice of standard requirements.
Document editing instruction: Experts will instruct in a specific way for each member of Project Board who was appointed specifically to edit document compliant with standard. It is necessary to arrange appropriate time for in BRC Project Board
Application Instruction: Experts will instruct members of Project Board to record compliant with issued document.
• Internal evaluation pre-audit: Experts will instruct members of Project Board to work on technical project, maintaining system and internal evaluation pre-audit. Finishing the course, members of project will become internal evaluators and help maintain system for the organization
Conduct internal evaluation: The pre-audit unit will send experts together with the internal auditors of the organization for internal evaluation. The internal auditor of the Customer will have a try at evaluation to learn technical and practical experience
• Fixing and prevention instruction: The expert will directly guide the assigned person to fix the problem as required by the standards and requirements of the prepared document and will not affect the work of the assigned staff)
Second internal evaluation: After fixing evaluation errors in first audit, if necessary, the organization should conduct the audit one more time to ensure there no evaluation error in the first audit left.
Register certificate: After fixing all of evaluation errors in first and second audit (if any), experts will guide customers to make registration documents with reputable Certification Organization and highlight the strengths/weaknesses of each certification organization for customers to choose (1 session projected)
Assessment of official certification: Organizing the assessment by assigning the delegation of experts to the organization to evaluate the level of compliance with BRC standards.
Issue certificate: After completing the assessment and concluding the assessment, correcting the evaluation error (if any), the organization shall send sufficient evidence to the certification organization and wait for the certificate. Once certified, the organization must maintain the validity of the standard.


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