Concerned about satisfying the British Retail Consortiums new Global Standard (BRC 5) ?

The new BRC 5 standard lays down stringent criteria regarding a number of critical food safety issues. The consequences of failing an audit or achieving a lower grade than required can be severe:

Withdrawal of the certification required to supply your existing customer base!




Make sure you are ready for BRC 5.

TraceSoft is a highly configurable ‘real-time’ mobile data capture solution, which provides a comprehensive platform to satisfy all of the new criteria in BRC 5, including:

  • Internal Audit – systems, procedures and checks critical to food safety, quality and legality
  • Traceability Testing – raw material to finished product and vice versa
  • Product Inspection – trends need to be automatically calculated and reported
  • Foreign Body Contamination / Metal Detection – line checks and frequency
  • Control of Critical Control Points – suitable and effective HACCP procedures
  • Process Validation – effective checking to produce safe and legal products
  • Shelf Life Determination – including checking of BBE and production dates
  • Quantity Measurement – weights and measures regulations
  • Complaint Handling – the need to handle complaints effectively
  • Hygiene – effectiveness of cleaning, proof of checking and auditing
  • Pest Control – monitoring of bait takes and frequency of checks

Traceability is a key requirement for any company wishing to secure BRC 5 accreditation and can be achieved by adopting the Tracesoft Traceability Module.

The Traceability Module will go beyond the BRC 5 requirements, providing you with instant traceability from finished product, through all of the manufacturing processes, to raw materials.  Conversely, Tracesoft will provide instant traceability from raw material, through all of the manufacturing processes, to finished product.

To find out more about BRC 5 read our White Paper ‘Achieving BRC 5’

Links:
Tracesoft Brochure
The BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 5

Top 10 Reasons
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  • Driving “Right First Time” to reduce scrapped product from 5% to 0.6%
  • Improving overall equipment effectiveness, increasing capacity by 20 hrs per week
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  • Effective management of critical control points in process checks
  • Process capability instrumental in launch of new products
  • Significant benefit in forums such as customer consistency panels, where real time analysis can be presented across production runs.
  • NPD ‘Right First Time’ launch programme facilitated by live trials on mobile data capture
  • Increasing annual profits by 5% through tighter conformance to specification
  • Return-on-investment under 5 months, adding to bottom line year on year.