The Food supply chain comprises many steps from the grower through to processor and finally consumer. Maintaining food safety throughout the entire chain is imperative to ensure that all steps along the chain reduce risk and eliminate hazards.

Maintenance of food safety across a myriad of steps and processes requires systems in place aimed at risk reduction and hazard prevention. Most organizations have some form of system. However, without independent audit checks and reviews, they will never truly gauge the effectiveness of their systems.

In the food industry, organizations must also comply with regulations, codes and standards. This imposes specific regulatory requirements on each step in the food chain. Objective evidence from an independent audit and certification body like IQS, substantiates your compliance with relevant legislative requirements delivering superior value proposition to customers.

To build brand is an expensive and time consuming task for most organizations. It takes long periods of time to build brand and often only minutes to destroy it. The best way to protect the value of your assets is to ensure that systems are effective and risk minimized at all times.


Your organisation will be able to:


Improve and further enhance market image
Gain additional competitive advantage
Improve documentation
Provide assurance and confidence to your customers
Reduce, minimize and manage risks associated with food safety
Improve communication with customers & suppliers regarding hazard identification & control
Achieve international recognition

To be sure that you are compliant with regulatory requirements and specifications of customers, your company should attain HACCP third party certification from IQS.