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BRC-Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 7 Key Changes

Saturday, January 24, 2015

BRC 7 is boosting locations for systems to reduce their acquaintance to fraud and greater clearness and traceability in food chain as revealed through addition of new fundamental requirements.
New Additional Fundamental Requirements
·         Management of suppliers of raw materials and packaging (Clause 3.5.1)
·         Labeling and Pack Control (Clause 6.2)

Momentous Changes
SENIOR MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AND CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT (Clause 1.1)
·         Review of the management of the systems for HACCP, food defence and authenticity. Management Review (Clause 1.1.3)
·         The site is kept informed of and reviews new risks to authenticity of raw materials (Clause 1.1.6)
·         SUPPLIER AND RAW MATERIAL APPROVAL AND PERFORMANCE MONITORING (Clause 3.5)
·         Management of Suppliers of Raw Materials and Packaging: Requirement for an effective supplier approval and monitoring system to ensure that any potential risks from raw materials to the safety authenticity, legality and quality of the final product are understood and managed. (Clause 3.5.1)
·         Traceability of raw materials purchased from agents and brokers to ensure that where a site has purchased a raw materials from an agent or broker, the site shall know the identity of the last manufacturer or packer, or for bulk commodity products the consolidation place of the raw material.(Clause 3.5.1.3 )
·         New Clauses Incorporated in the Standard
1. MANAGEMENT OF SURPLUS FOOD AND PRODUCTS FOR ANIMAL FEED (Clause 4.13)
2. PRODUCT LABELLING (Clause 5.2)
3. PRODUCT AUTHENTICITY, CLAIMS AND CHAIN OF CUSTODY (Clause 5.4)

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