BRCGS - IFS - Service Sheet

BRCGS/IFS
CERTIFICATION
Two essential food standards

for suppliers to retail
BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Demand for food safety is growing. Consumers and authorities increasingly demand that the food we eat
should offer high levels of quality and security. If a problem occurs, the source of error needs to be found
quickly and the error rectified.
Demands are quickly directed to the retail trade first, but responsibility now spreads through the entire food
chain to include food producers, primary producers and transporters.
WHAT ARE BRCGS AND IFS?

These food quality and safety standards are published by retail trade
groups. Any company wishing to supply its food products to those
retailers must meet the required standards. The retailers request that an
independent third party approves the quality and food safety system of
the supplier.
CASE STUDY
Arla Foods, Northern Europe’s largest dairy product.
CHALLENGE
• Arla Foods demand the highest quality service from Bureau Veritas. All auditors must undergo extensive
quality assessment and evaluation to meet Arla’s high standards
• Arla requests an array of standards including the environmental standard ISO 14001, and food standards
Danish HACCP, German accredited IFS.
SOLUTION
• Arla Foods and Bureau Veritas have built a strong partnership enabling each to improve
• Bureau Veritas trains its experts to the level requested by Arla
• Bureau Veritas understands the stakes and needs of Arla and adapts to them.
BENEFITS
• Bureau Veritas is able to satisfy Arla’s need for auditing to several different standards thanks to multi-qualified
auditors. A one-supplier solution.
WHAT ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRCGS AND IFS?

The BRCGS was published by the union of supermarket chains. BRCGS proposes global standards for Food
Safety, Packaging and Packaging Materials, Storage and Distribution, Consumer Products, Agents and
Brokers, Retail, and Gluten Free.
The IFS is a quality and safety standard published by the union of German supermarket chains, HDE
(Hauptverband des Deutschen Einzelhandels). It has been adopted by the French equivalent, the FCD
(Fédération des entreprises du Commerce et de la Distribution). Retailers include Aldi, Lidl and Metro.
Both standards are aimed at retailers’ suppliers. Their goal is the same but the paths to achieve that same
goal are different. The base of each audit is quite similar but the criteria and their levels differ. This is why
combined audit time can be reduced however there is no potential time saving in reporting.
BRCGS/IFS
CERTIFICATION
KEY BENEFITS
Effective control of
Access markets like UK, Reinforced
internal processes and
Germany and France customer confidence
minimizing risk of failure
Strengthened relationships Focus kept on your Streamlined

with retail distributors essential challenges production
Signal sent about a

Minimization of Increased
proactive approach
significant food risks transparency
to food safety
OUR PROCESS
IFS
Key steps in our certification process are: BUREAU VERITAS

Certification
RE- CERTIFICATION
• Definition of certification scope; AUDITS
BRCGS
• Pre-audit (optional): gap analysis BUREAU VERITAS
Certification
and diagnosis of your current position against standard; CONTINUAL
CERTIFICATE IMPROVEMENT
• Certification audit (certificate issued) to verify that BRCGS or ISSUED
FSMS*
IFS requirements are met; • Management Responsibility
• Customer Satifaction
CA*
• Customer Requirements
• Re-certification audit to follow compliance and continual • Resource Management
improvement. • Measurement, Analysis
& Improvement DEFINITION OF
• Product realisation CERTIFICATION
• Product SCOPE
After each step, a straightforward and complete report is CERTIFICATION
quickly delivered allowing your company to continually improve AUDIT
its food safety management performance. PRE-AUDIT

(OPTIONAL)
CA*
* FSMS: Food Safety Management System
** CA: Corrective Action (if necessary)
WHY CHOOSE BUREAU VERITAS SERVICES?

FOOD EXPERTISE
Bureau Veritas Certification can help every player in the food supply chain to meet the highest
standards of Quality, Health & Safety and Environmental compliance.
RECOGNITION
Bureau Veritas Certiﬁcation is accredited worldwide for these food safety schemes through the
international accreditation body UKAS (BRCGS), as well as COFRAC and DAR (IFS).
NETWORK
We operate in more than 100 countries. This global presence means that our clients can receive the
double advantage of international expertise combined with a genuine depth of local knowledge
(language, culture, laws, customs, etc.) ensuring a high quality audit.
MARK OF GLOBAL RECOGNITION
The Bureau Veritas Certification Mark is a globally recognized symbol of your organization’s
ongoing commitment to excellence, sustainability and reliability.
For more information:

[email protected]
www.certification.bureauveritas.com

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BRCGS/IFS

Two essential food standards

WHAT ARE BRCGS AND IFS?

WHAT ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRCGS AND IFS?

Strengthened relationships Focus kept on your Streamlined

Signal sent about a

Key steps in our certification process are: BUREAU VERITAS

its food safety management performance. PRE-AUDIT

WHY CHOOSE BUREAU VERITAS SERVICES?

For more information:

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