International Standards
Food Safety
These are the most adopted international Food Safety standards.
SQF
Food Safety
SQF (Safe Quality Foods) is a comprehensive food safety and quality management program for the entire food supply chain. It lays out the rules that a business must follow in order help ensure the safety and quality of their product. The program consists of two Codes, the SQF 1000 Code for primary production (farming) and the SQF 2000 Code for food manufacturing and food sector services.
ISO 22000
Food Safety
The ISO 22000 family of standards relate to food safety management systems and are designed to help organizations of any size and at any stage in the food chain to ensure they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders.
IFS Food Standard
Food Safety
The IFS Food Standard is a quality and food safety standard applying to all post farm gate stages of food processing. The standard is published by IFS through HDE Trade Services Gmbh, Berlin, Germany.
HACCP
Food Safety
HACCP is a process control system that identifies where food safety hazards may occur in a food production process and puts into place stringent controls to prevent the hazards from occurring. By strictly monitoring and controlling each step of the process, there is less chance for hazards to occur and in this way a food business is able to assure the safety of the food products they produce.
BRC/IoP Packaging
Food Safety
The BRC/IOP Global Standard for Packaging & Packaging Materials is the latest in a series of standards published to conform to not only the necessity for consumer safety, but also the importance that packaging of a product plays over and above the traditional features of contain, preserve, protect and inform.
BRC Food
Food Safety
The British Retail Consortium Global Standard for Food Safety specifies the basic requirements of a quality management system (QMS) that a producer must fulfil to demonstrate its ability to consistently produce safe and legal food products.
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