BRC / I o P GLOBAL STANDARD FOOD & OTHER PACKAGING MATERIALS

Introduction
UK Retailers and their suppliers of retail branded products are now required to take ‘all reasonable precautions and exercise all due diligence’ in the development, manufacture, distribution, advertising or sale of food products to the consumer.

Suppliers of packaging to U.K. retailers or suppliers of packaging to food manufacturers who are themselves providing retail branded products are now obliged to put in place appropriate systems and controls to ensure their packaging is suitable for safe food use.

In 2001 the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and the Institute of Packaging (I o P) developed the technical standard and protocol for companies manufacturing and supplying food packaging materials for retailer branded products in order to ensure retailers and food manufacturers fulfilled their legal obligations.

The standard was primarily introduced to protect the consumer by providing a common basis for the evaluation of companies supplying food product packaging to retailers.

Since its introduction the standard has become the benchmark by which companies supplying packaging are measured.

The key requirements of the BRC / I o P standard are :-

The adoption of a formal Hazard Analysis System

A documented Technical Management System that shall include all the quality and hygine systems used throughout the organisations site(s)

The control of factory standards, products, processes and personnel.

Crown Management has extensive experience in helping companies achieve Certification to the BRC /I o P standard.

For further details please contact Mrs Elaine Smith on 0161-620-2083.