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Located throughout West Sussex
Email us info@foodforwardconsultancy.co.uk
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What we can provide

We can help you with various aspects of your food business being able to Set-Up Food Safety Systems. These cover your requirement for food safety in various standards.

Your go-to source for assistance in helping your company obtain certification is Food Forward Consultancy Ltd. We value our emphasis on strategy, innovation and application to ensure guaranteed success.

Our team of experts can guide your business through the process of achieving certification for various standards such as the BRCGS (Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standard) as well as SALSA (Safe and Local Supplier Approval) for the following standards:

❖ BRCGS Agents and Brokers

❖ BRCGS Storage and Distribution

❖ BRCGS Food

❖ BRCGS START!

❖ SALSA

With our professional assistance, your business can navigate the complexities of certification
requirements, ensuring that your products and processes meet the necessary standards for
quality and safety.

With our professional assistance, your business can navigate the complexities of certification requirements, ensuring that your products and processes meet the necessary standards for quality and safety.

Let us help you streamline the certification process and enhance your business's reputation
for excellence in the industry.

Let us help you streamline the certification process and enhance your business's reputation for excellence in the industry.

We are also able to help you achieve compliance in the following standards to elevate your
business’ accreditations and farm assurance schemes.

We are also able to help you achieve compliance in the following standards to elevate your business’s accreditations and farm assurance schemes.

Here are some of the examples of assurances we work with:

❖ Organic Certification

❖ Food For Life

❖ Red Tractor Compliance

❖ RSPCA

❖ SEDEX Compliance

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Ensuring the FSA (Food Standard Agency) Compliance with Council

We can assist you with supplier management through Supplier Auditing. This can allow your
business to evaluate your key suppliers and ensure that your key aims and motives line up
with your company supplier approval protocol.

We can assist you with supplier management through Supplier Auditing. This can allow your business to evaluate your key suppliers and ensure that your key aims and motives line up with your company supplier approval protocol.

We also work part time and provide technical support with regards to system maintenance
and overseeing the continuous BRCGS Certification. Our consultants currently work for the
following UK Certification bodies being BRCGS Food and SALSA.

We also work part time and provide technical support with regards to system maintenance and overseeing the continuous BRCGS Certification. Our consultants currently work for the following UK Certification bodies being BRCGS Food and SALSA.

What we do

Documentation can be complex; we aim to simplify this for you and make customised
documentation to simplify your main processes whilst covering the key requirement of the
relevant standards. When we set up food safety system, we always ensure that there is a no
obligation site visit and that involves a gap analysis, advice on layout and flows and a fully
costed quotation with regards to all the expenses and advice on ongoing results.

Documentation can be complex; we aim to simplify this for you and make customised documentation to simplify your main processes whilst covering the key requirement of the relevant standards. When we set up food safety system, we always ensure that there is a no obligation site visit and that involves a gap analysis, advice on layout and flows and a fully costed quotation with regards to all the expenses and advice on ongoing results.

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We aim to set up the documentation with regards to HACCP, procedures, policies, and records.

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We work on enriching food safety culture while working with and training your staff to carry out these procedures effectively.

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We ensure that non-conformances are dealt with and support you during major audits.

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Part time technical management can be an effective way to allow an experience individual to manage system maintenance, focus on internal auditing, management reviews to promote supplier due diligence.

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Clear advice on changes that may be required to the buildings / layout, and the most cost-effective means of achieving the requirements of the Standard.

Other factors we can help with is designing questionnaires, managing responses, supplier approval and an opinion to call available remotely by email and phone when not on site.

Fully costed proposal for work to be undertaken with site to develop the desired standard Compliant systems.

Clear advice on the ongoing and ancillary costs associated with gaining and maintaining BRCGS/ SALSA Certification.

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Approximate cost of routine, ongoing microbiological testing

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Staff training

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Cost of the audit

Sites are welcome to take up a 'complete package' (covering all the above) or to choose only those elements where they need support. We offer hybrid working conditions with onsite help when necessary.

After the audit, ongoing support offered 'as required', from internal auditing through to a complete 'technical management' service on a part time basis: from a day a fortnight to a day every 3-6 months.

Many of the sites which Food Forward Consultancy has helped to gain and maintain BRCGS / SALSA Certification, have no full time 'technical staff' and have found the 'part-time technical manager' option to be an extremely cost-effective alternative to recruiting contracted staff.

What is BRCGS and SALSA?

BRCGS and SALSA are certifications that company use to show their compliance in food safety. We offer mentoring in both these standards as this can help you structure your business effectively. This can also be a cost-effective method to ensure that product complaints are controlled and evaluate how the business can prevent recalls of products.

SALSA is a good starting point when it comes to getting a food safety certification for your business

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This encourages food manufacturers to build up trust in their supply chain.

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This cements that key processes that you have in your factory and strengthens them to alleviate costs.

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This will reduce the likelihood of product recalls and complaints as your systems are in place to prevent product non-conformances.

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Ensuring that your systems are regulated with improve customer confidence.

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Using systematic approaches, we can implement these food standards for you to encourage a good food safety culture in your factory.

It is Food Forward Consultancy’s aim to help reduce the stress when dealing with food safety issues. We ensure that we put a proactive system which is sustainable to manage your business more effectively and minimise stress.

The key benefit to SALSA is that it allows us to help smaller food manufacturers and suppliers to gain an accreditation to show that the food being produced is safe and legal. It is a good certification to allow your company to show their aptitude in providing a safe standard of food.

To learn about each standard in more detail please select the relevant service option: