Packaging and food contact materials

BRCGS Packaging Materials document toolkit

Documentation for packaging manufacturers and food contact material suppliers certifying to BRCGS Packaging Materials, structured to the standard and editable throughout.

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Issue 7packaging standard

Hygiene categoriesboth covered

Word & Excelfully editable

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Why this travels

Packaging is audited on its own standard

A packaging site is not audited against the food manufacturing standard. BRCGS publishes a separate standard for packaging materials, with its own hygiene categories and its own product safety requirements, and it is recognised by GFSI in the same way.

Product safety and quality management requirements written for a converting operation rather than a food factory.
Hygiene category requirements, which depend on the end use of the material rather than on where the site is.

Contamination control for foreign body, chemical and migration risk specific to packaging.
Customer specification and complaint handling, which is where most packaging non-conformances arise.

Straight answer

What a toolkit does, and what it does not do

You get the documented system already written and structured to the standard: the manual, procedures, forms, registers and risk assessments. That is normally the slowest part of getting certified and the part that is identical from one site to the next.

It does not implement itself. Someone at your site still has to make the documents true, with your process steps, your hazards, your suppliers and your monitoring records. Local food law, such as labelling and permits, stays local and is yours to add.

If you would rather not do that alone, we work with teams remotely as well as on site.

Common questions

Before you buy

We supply food contact packaging but do not make food. Is this the right standard?

Yes. The packaging standard is written for converters and material suppliers. The food safety standard would not fit your process and an auditor would not use it for your scope.

Does it cover both hygiene categories?

Yes. The documentation supports both, since the category is determined by the end use of the material rather than by the site.

Can this be used alongside a food manufacturing certificate?

If one company runs both a food site and a packaging site, each scope is certified separately and each needs its own documented system.

What format is it in?

Microsoft Word documents and Excel workbooks, in English, fully editable.

What language and file formats do I get?

English, as Microsoft Word documents and Excel workbooks. Nothing is a locked PDF, because a document you cannot edit is a document you cannot make true for your site.

Why is the price in South African rand?

We are a South African company and our prices are set in rand. The dollar figure shown is an indication, converted at the current rate, so you can judge the cost before checkout. The amount you pay is the rand amount.

Tell us what you convert and we will confirm the scope

Hygiene category and scope are set by what the material touches and how it is used. Getting that right before you buy is quicker than correcting it during an audit.

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