Food industry
standards

Food industry
standards

We help food businesses with food safety their customers expect

We help food businesses around the world focus on the food safety their customers expect

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Food and drink industry standards

Escalating population growth, the globalization of supply chains, economic pressures and increasingly complex consumer eating habits are creating complicated and often conflicting pressures on the global food sector. We help our customers certify to globally recognized standards so they can increase their resilience and credibility. 

  GMP BSI HAACP & GMP ISO 22000 FSSC 22000 SQF BRCGS
GFSI-benchmarked No No No Yes Yes Yes
Applicable industries BSI is accredited to support
  • Primary production
  • Food and beverage manufacturing
  • Packaging
  • Storage and distribution
  • Primary production
  • Food and beverage manufacturing
  • Packaging
  • Storage and distribution
  • Food and beverage manufacturing
  • Packaging
  • Storage and distribution
  • Production of feed
  • Primary production
  • Food and beverage manufacturing
  • Packaging for food
  • Storage and distribution
  • Primary production
  • Food and beverage manufacturing
  • Packaging
  • Storage and distribution
  • Food and beverage manufacturing
  • Packaging
  • Storage and distribution
  • Agents and brokers
Design and implementation Flexible Flexible Flexible Flexible Flexible Prescriptive
Certification audit cycle Three-year recertification cycle with annual surveillance Three-year recertification cycle with annual surveillance Three-year recertification cycle with annual surveillance Three-year recertification cycle with annual surveillance Annual recertification Annual recertification
Unannounced audits Not required Not required Not required Mandatory: annual surveillance Mandatory: required once every three certifications Mandatory: required once every three certifications
Audit scoring No overall audit outcome scoring No overall audit outcome scoring Certified/Not certified Certified/Not certified Percentage categories; excellent, good, complies, fails to comply AA/AA+, A/A+, B/B+, C/C+, D/D+
Use of logo Allowed on product packaging
Allowed on product packaging
Allowed on product packaging
Not allowed on product packaging
Not allowed on product packaging
Not allowed on product packaging
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Why BSI?

We offer a broad range of food safety certification and risk management services to help all organizations in the food supply chain achieve compliance and industry best practice to grow their business.

We’re a leading food safety and certification provider with extensive auditing capacity and the capability to conduct integrated audits for a wide range of food safety standards across the entire food and beverage supply chain – including GFSI-recognized standards.

Our service solution for food safety includes certification, training, assessment and supply chain software, providing you and your customer’s assurance and enabling you to manage risk more effectively.