Global Standard for Food Safety - Issue7

摘要

Underthe terms of the UK Food Safety Act 1990, all sectors involved with the supply of food, have an obligation to take all reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence in the avoidance of failures in the development, manufacture, distribution, advertising and sale of food to the consumers. In the context of retailer branded products the verification of performance at site is a requirement. Initially, this task was done by the retailers themselves with the aid of internally developed standards.The internally developed standards bring in non-uniformity in the application of criteria developed separately by the retailers. To set right this anomaly, British Retail Consortium stepped in and brought out the first issue of BRC Standard in 1998. Within a span of 17 years the standard has been revised 7 times evidencing the dynamism of this popular standard. Yet another fact is that the standard has been translated into several languages to ensure effective implementation across the world. The seventh issue has been developed with inputs from international stakeholders representing, food manufacturers, retailers, food service companies and Certification Bodies and aptly titled as 'Global Standard for Food Safety'.