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BRC (British Retail Consortium)

What is BRC?

BRC(British Retail Consortium) is a standard that represents all forms of retailers from small retail stores to big chains. It ensures four functions in an organization:

The standard is intended for agricultural and food and beverage businesses that manufacture or process food products, ingredients, and packaging materials.

  • Food safety
  • Consumer product
  • Packaging materials
  • Storage and distribution

The BRC food safety standard is used to prescribes quality, safety and operational criteria to ensure that manufacturers fulfil their legal obligations and provide protection for the end consumer.

Overview

The BRC accreditation ensures that the organization is meeting the standards in the food safety, quality and operational department. Similarly to the FSSC and ISO 22000 certification, the BRC certification is accreditation by an accreditation body.

The certification applies to the organizations that are working in food-related industries. BRC food certified system allows the exporters, producers, processors and exporters of food products in the utilization of technical resources efficiently, while being cost-effective for the assurance of food safety.

BRC Requirements

Implementing BRC in food industry requires some predefined strategies that are put there by the accreditation bodies. These strategies dictate the successful implementation of a BRC 8 system. These strategies are:

  • Senior Management Commitment
  • Site standards
  • Product Control
  • Process Control
  • Thorough following of the HACCP principles
  • Properly trained personnel and staff
  • A Food Safety & Quality Management System present in the organization

BRC Training

We at Samarth Consultants assists the organizations across the world to implement and achieve BRC certification. We rigorously work for our client’s sake and continuously keep auditing the system for any discrepancies that could potentially harm the accreditation of the BRC certification.

With our team of highly experienced consultants and auditors we provide our clients with a training course that covers all the of the parts about BRC like:

  • HACCP Plan.
  • Continual Improvement.
  • Areas of higher risk.
  • Hazard Analysis.
  • Control measures and Classifications.
  • Verification & Validation.
  • Realize the business benefits of an improvement based FSMS
  • Understand and apply the Plan-Do-Check-Act approach.

BRC Certification

After the completion of training, we help our clients understand about BRC certification entails. Our services include helping our clients get the certification for BRC standard. We cover everything that is required by the accreditation body during training and ensure that our clients get the certification on their initial attempt.

The certification has a number of benefits like:

  • The basis for GFSI Benchmark
  • Product Categories
  • Product/process technology-based
  • First Standard Approved by GFSI
  • Linked to fields of audit & auditor competency,
  • Brings buyers and suppliers together throughout the world.