BRCGS Food Safety Issue 8

• By : Admin
• 15 October 18, 15:08

Issue 8 of the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety was published on 1 August 2018 and Issue 7 will become redundant in February 2019, when the audits for version 8 will commence.

For this issue, the focus has been on understanding stakeholders’ requirements and the developments affect the following main areas:

·         New requirements for environmental monitoring

·         Increased consideration of food safety culture

·         New cyber security clauses for product security and food defence

·         High risk, high care and ambient high care production risk zones

·         Integration of pet food

·         GFSI benchmarking and global applicability.

Food safety Standard Issue 8 also maintains the principles developed in Issue 7 regarding the incorporation of Additional Modules.

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