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Helpful informtion dedicated to Food Safety and Food Quality Practices for the food industry.
FSSC 22000, BRCGS and GLOBALG.A.P. all require a traceability test at least annually, and retailers expect a mock recall to complete within hours. With digital traceability it takes minutes. Here is how the one-up, one-down trace works on a system.
Codex HACCP principle 4 requires monitoring at each CCP. The failure that costs most sites is not a bad reading, it is a reading that never happened. Here is why a missed check should alert someone within minutes, and how to make that happen.
Paperless food safety software in South Africa costs from R499 to R3,800 per site per month in October 2026, with modules from R650. Here is what each tier buys and how to compare quotes.
Almost every converter complaint is a quality complaint, not a food safety one, so your BRCGS or FSSC certificate does not answer it. Six real complaints mapped to clauses, the 8.1 acceptance criteria problem, artwork version control, and a realistic ninety day plan.
Clause 5.1.1 i) requires top management to promote quality culture and ethical behaviour; clause 7.3 e) requires everyone to be aware of it. Why posters and surveys fail, what a dated management action looks like, and how to pass the floor interview.
Clause 9.2.2 a) now requires audit objectives on every plan, 6.1.2 and 6.1.3 are audited separately, and 7.3 e) quality culture is tested by interview. A full clause-by-clause internal audit checklist for ISO 9001:2026, plus the ten findings we expect most.
Clause 6.1.3 is the single biggest new build in the ISO 9001:2026 transition. The seven steps it requires, every column your register needs, a worked example from a packaging site, and the six things auditors reject.
A customer questionnaire asks for ISO 9001 and your site holds FSSC 22000. You will usually need both certificates, but not two systems. How to decide SHARE, EXTEND or SEPARATE clause by clause, what FSSC Additional Requirements 2.5.9 and 2.5.13 already give you, and where combining the two goes wrong.
The certification body fee is usually only a fifth to a third of what an ISO 9001:2026 certificate actually costs, and more than half on a small, simple scope. A full rand-by-rand breakdown excluding VAT, a worked example for a mid-sized South African manufacturer, the three avoidable costs, and the lines you cannot cut.
A customer has asked your site for ISO 9001. Here is what it is, why your FSSC 22000 or BRCGS certificate does not cover it, what clauses 4 to 10 actually require, what documents you really need, what certification involves, and what it costs in South Africa.
ISO 9001:2026 is the sixth edition, published 16 September 2026. The full clause-by-clause change table from clause 2 to clause 10, what is genuinely new, what is not new whatever you have been told, and what a certified South African site must actually do before the 30 September 2029 end of the Global ACI transition. Confirm the dates with your own certification body.
The ASC Food Safety and Quality Culture Pack: anonymous worker and manager questionnaires on a QR code, a manager dashboard for training, feedback, inspections and indicators, and a one click audit ready report with an action plan. R750 per site for 12 months. FSSC 22000, BRCGS, SQF, IFS.
A practical, audit ready method for measuring food safety and quality culture: anonymous questionnaires, behaviour observations, indicators, maturity and an action plan. Mapped to FSSC 22000 2.5.8, BRCGS 1.1.2, SQF, IFS and GFSI V2.0. Tool from R750.
VC versus SANS, which food categories are covered, importer duties at the port, levies, factory inspection, detained stock and the regulatory file to keep.
Section 61 of the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 makes you liable irrespective of negligence. How an R146 compliant label becomes your cheapest control.
Legal Metrology Act 9 of 2014, SANS 289, tolerable negative error, checkweigher setup, drained mass and the records an NRCS inspector asks to see.
Most TACCP studies stop at the supply chain. Cover all six domains: people, premises, process, product, transport and information systems. RA02 pack R690.
Every GFSI scheme wants a documented VACCP assessment. Score opportunity, motivation and control by raw material, with seven worked examples. RA18 R690.
Regulation 43 of R146 of 2010 sets the declaration. A cross contact assessment sets the may contain. How to map routes, score them and label honestly.
Design the pest programme yourself instead of signing the contractor’s proposal. Device types, densities, frequency, trend review and the file an auditor opens.
