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BRC GLOBAL STANDARD GUIDES TO SIMPLIFY ACCREDITATION PROCESS FOR SUPPLIERS

31 August 2005

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has today launched a set of new Guidelines for its Global Standards to help those who are new to the accreditation process and to assist current BRC certified suppliers to understand the complexities of specific clauses.

Aimed at quality and technical managers, suppliers and manufacturers, the new Guidelines contain practical and simplified advice on implementing the various requirements set out in the Standards.

The BRC Global Standards are used by certification bodies across the world to enable suppliers to achieve certification against a globally recognised standard and to ensure that best practice is established and maintained.

BRC Head of Technical Services, Kevin Swoffer, said: "Most large UK retailers will require their supplier to have gained certification to the appropriate BRC Global Standard so we are pleased to be able to offer these Guidelines. They outline in simplistic terms exactly what needs to be done to meet the requirements of the Standard.

"We have produced these Guidelines as a direct response to requests from companies seeking to meet accreditation for the first time and from smaller suppliers who don't have the technical knowledge some of the larger organisations have."

The first two Guidelines, Metal Detection and Product Recall Testing will be available from mid September for £10 each from www.tsoshop.co.uk/brcguidelines

A further five Guidelines: Process Validation-Low Acid Canning, Process Validation-Pasteurisation, Pest Control, Internal Audit and Traceability Testing will be available in late September.



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