BRC Global Standard Food Safety

BRCGS Food is a product certification standard based on the following principles:

- The quality management system with a focus on food safety culture

- The HACCP system (12 steps)

- The hazard areas of good hygiene practice in detail

- Good manufacturing practice

Version 9 has been in force since 1 February 2023.

Overview of the most important changes

• Audit report: new option with the ‘blended audit’
• ‘Food safety culture’, strengthened approach and more detailed requirements
• Better control of outsourced activities
• New requirements for ‘food fraud’ and ‘food defence’
• New requirements for staff training
• New section for sites carrying out primary processing activities
• Minor changes to several requirements that must be adapted before the audit