Westminster, CO -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/10/2010 -- The BRC Global Standard - Packaging was published on 17 October 2001 following two years of development by The British Retail Consortium and The Institute of Packaging in consultation with a wide variety of retailers, food producers, trade associations and packaging companies. Many of the large UK's retailers such as Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's, Safeway, Co-op, Tesco and Waitrose have stated that suppliers of retailer branded packaging must achieve certification to the BRC Global Standard - Packaging. The Standard has been welcomed by the majority of the packaging industry and significant numbers of packaging businesses both in the UK and overseas have already achieved certification or are working towards it.
Reports of deaths and illnesses caused by poor food safety have grown in frequency over the last twenty plus years and in order to protect the consumer, The Food Safety Act 1990 was established and later The Food Safety (General Food Hygiene) Regulations 1995 (EU Food Safety Directive 93/43/EEC).
BRC audits are a necessary part of business—like going to the dentist is a necessary part of preventative healthcare. However, BRC requires not only that you maintain best practices, but also proof that your suppliers are doing the same.
Under the terms of the Food Safety Act, retailers have an obligation to take all reasonable precautions and exercise all due diligence in the avoidance of failure, whether in the development, manufacture, distribution, advertising or sale of food products to the consumer. To aid due diligence the BRC Global Standard - Food was launched in 1998 and it was inevitable that a common auditing standard for packaging companies would soon follow.
The standard has become the benchmark by which audits are undertaken and has superseded previous hygiene certification schemes.
Join TraceGains for a 30-minute webinar to learn how to automate supplier compliance. In the process participants will also learn how to illuminate previously unknown supplier risk, how to reduce that risk, and how to predict future supplier risk.
During the webinar, participants will learn how to automate:
• Purchasing - Supplier Approval and Performance Monitoring (BRC 3.6.1, etc.)
• Corrective and Preventative Action (BRC 3.8.4)
• Compliance of Documentation and Specifications (BRC 3.7.2.1)
• Control of Non-Conforming/Out-of-Specification Product (BRC 5.6.1., etc.)
• Reporting on Effective Compliance (BRC 1.2)
• And much more...
Learn about easy BRC audit compliance and all the other benefits of Continuous Supplier Risk Management.
The webinar will be held on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT. Space is limited, so please reserve a webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/239817939.
The mission at TraceGains (http://www.TraceGains.com) is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer. This mission is in now way mutually exclusive from identifying new profit opportunities. TraceGains, Inc. is the SaaS (software as a service) leader in helping companies reduce costs and improve product quality-automatically. Food & Beverage, Quick Service Restaurant Chains, Life Sciences, Chemicals, and related industries can leverage the Supplier Compliance and Supplier Impact applications to eliminate manual certificate of analysis (CoA) review, automatically reject shipments that are not compliant with critical business rules, and rank-order suppliers based on yield, quality, finished-good profitability, customer feedback, or any other downstream outcome. The company is headquartered near Denver, CO, USA, with direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
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