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Helpful information dedicated Food Safety and Food Quality auditing practices.
IFS Broker certification in South Africa: rollout order, realistic timelines, annual reviews due before the first audit and the unannounced audit option.
Food safety for fruit exporters and traders: residues, pathogens, mycotoxins, allergens and fraud in fruit and nut mixes, and what a broker can control.
How to build an IFS Broker risk assessment for a trading company: broker steps, hazard scoring, where controls sit, validated limits and supplier approval.
The eight IFS Broker audit KO requirements, what the auditor tests under each, the Majors trading companies pick up, and how to close them before audit.
IFS Broker 3.2 requirements explained chapter by chapter: the 101 Part 2 requirements, the eight KOs and the documents a trading company needs for each.
Audit-ready is not a state you reach the week before the certification body arrives. It is a system where every record is complete, verified and findable on any day of the year. Here is what that looks like and the five-day setup that gets a site there.
Most South African food sites run at least part of their FSMS in Excel. It works until the audit, the recall or the day the person who built the spreadsheet leaves. Here are the five failures auditors see, and what to use instead.
Supplier approval is one of the clauses that produces the most minor non-conformances in FSSC 22000 and BRCGS audits, nearly always because a certificate lapsed in an inbox. A supplier portal moves the work to the supplier and the evidence to one place.
Auditors for FSSC 22000, BRCGS, GLOBALG.A.P. and R638 accept digital records, and have for years. What they check is control of the record, not the medium. Here is the test they apply.
How to audit suppliers, co packers and cold stores in South Africa: when a certificate is enough, what to check, how to score and which contract clauses help.
How franchise groups, retail chains and multi site caterers run a hygiene audit programme: one checklist, risk based frequency, dashboards and escalation.
Environmental monitoring nonconformities under FSSC 22000 2.5.7, BRCGS 4.11.8, SQF 2.4.8 and IFS 5.6.2: what auditors raise and the evidence that closes each.
Supplier approval is a BRCGS Issue 9 fundamental. Risk rank suppliers and materials, match evidence to each tier, and keep approval current. RA11 pack R690.
By: Mthokozisi Nkosi · SAATCA Registered R638:2018 Lead ImplementerUpdated: 3 May 2026Reading time: 18 minutes Your Environmental Health Practitioner (EHP) inspection is the moment of truth for your spaza shop. Get it right and you walk away with a Certificate of Acceptability (COA), a legal trading licence, and confidence to …
BRCGS ISSUE 9 · IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE · UK RETAIL If your South African food manufacturing business supplies, or wants to supply, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Asda, Morrisons, Co-op, Aldi UK or Lidl UK, you need BRCGS Food Safety. It is the dominant GFSI standard in UK retail and …
A well-executed audit reveals patterns, exposes blind spots, and highlights risks long before they develop
This training helps teams understand not only what has changed, but how to implement the changes correctly, ensuring a smooth transition and continued certification.
This is how the ASC Public Health and Food Safety Consultants’ food hygiene audit process and rating system for certification in South Africa works.
ASC Public Health and Food Safety consultants stand out as the premier choice for food hygiene audits in South Africa, setting the benchmark for excellence in the field. This distinction is not merely a result of our comprehensive audit services but also our vast experience and proactive approach to ensuring …
