Food safety certification

Food safety certification schemes like SALSA and BRCGS are important to many manufacturers as they demonstrate that they are operating to industry-recognised food safety standards. This enables them to supply their products to national and regional retailers, wholesalers and foodservice providers.

Here at ZERO2FIVE, we can support you with all aspects of securing or maintaining BRCGS or SALSA certification.

SALSA certification

Designed for smaller food producers and suppliers, SALSA is one of the most widely recognised food safety certification schemes in the UK with over 2000 members.  

To support your company to secure or maintain SALSA certification, we can provide mentoring to help you review and design your food safety management systems in line with the requirements of SALSA. We can also deliver internal auditing against the standard to help you develop an action plan to meet its requirements.

For further information on the SALSA Standard, please visit the SALSA website.

For examples of the SALSA support we can offer, see our Joe’s Ice Cream success story and our Peak Supps success story.

BRCGS certification

The BRCGS Global Food Safety Standard is used by over 22,000 food and drink manufacturing sites in more than 130 countries and is accepted by 70% of the top 10 global retailers. It is often seen as the next step after SALSA for larger food and drink companies.

Developed with input from industry, the BRCGS standard provides a framework to manage product safety, integrity, legality and quality, and the operational controls for these criteria in food and drink manufacturing.

Here at ZERO2FIVE we have considerable experience in supporting businesses aspiring to secure BRCGS certification, and sites that are already certified to the standard.

We can deliver mentoring to help you create and validate food safety management systems which meet the requirements of the BRCGS standard.

In addition, we can support businesses by carrying out internal audits against the BRCGS standard. The audit will assess the current status of your food safety management systems and provide a detailed action plan which will help you to fulfil the requirements of the BRCGS standard.

For further information on the BRCGS standard, please visit the BRCGS website.

For examples of the BRCGS support we can offer, see our The Welsh Pantry success story and our Authentic Curries & World Foods success story.