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The food industry faces ever more demanding customers, increasing government requirements, brand issues, environmental impacts, growth and profitability concerns. Are you sure that your food supply chain is safe, secure and sustainable?
We have been working with the world’s top brands to achieve the best from their management systems for more than 25 years. We help you protect your brand reputation and consumers by addressing the complexity of risks, up and down your supply chain, and assuring food safety and sustainability. To serve you, we have food assessors who combine our unique methodology with considerable sector experience and extensive knowledge of international and local standards and schemes.
Key food safety management systems standards that we provide services for:
Bespoke solutions
We can work with you to deliver a bespoke solution which covers your entire Food Supply Chain and which meets your Food Safety requirements.
Beyond food safety assurance
We also help you manage risks in vital areas such as quality (ISO 9001), environment (IS0 14001), heath and safety (OHSAS 18001), corporate responsibility, climate change and sustainability.
Food integrity and safety
Your brand's reputation and success depends on the safety of your products, regardless of where you are in the food supply chain. Your food supply chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Our food safety and quality services can help you minimise your risk while helping to ensure that your suppliers have systems in place that are robust and in line with the values and principles of your organisation. We can help you:
protect your brand, image and reputation. Our food safety and quality assessors help to identify, assess and control your risks.
confirm that your management systems support your business. We verify and certify the compliance of your management systems against appropriate standards for your business.
Supply chain sustainability - you and your suppliers
Our supply chain assurance services combine certification against existing global and industry standards with assessments against existing or new internal criteria. They help provide your business with an integrated, bespoke solution that addresses needs specific to your organisation as well as the demands of your stakeholders.
Why Choose LRQA?
LRQA Business Assurance
We deliver our services using our Business Assurance approach, which is unique to LRQA. Business Assurance is about moving beyond mere compliance with standards. It is about judging the effectiveness of your organisation's management system and its overall contribution to your business. It gives you confidence in your future by empowering you to optimise opportunities whilst identifying and mitigating risks to your business. Find out more about LRQA Business Assurance.
International expertise
We bring international expertise and deep insight into the complex world of modern food supply chain management. LRQA has been working with the world's top brands to achieve the best from their management systems for more than 20 years.
Global organisation with local reach
We speak the local language and understand the local safety and security threats, distribution chains and national cultures, with the backing of our local staff in more than 120 offices worldwide. Wherever you are in the world, our local resources are on hand to help you manage your risks.
Technical expertise
Our 300 experienced and highly-trained food safety assessors can tailor your assurance need. We can also customise assessment criteria that are entirely unique to your business requirements.
We invest heavily in ongoing training for our assessors to maintain up-to-date knowledge of technical and compliance changes which affect your industry.
A trusted 'voice'
LRQA is a part of the Lloyd's Register Group, an independent, impartial leader in risk management since 1760. Our understanding of standards goes right from development through to implementation.
A thought leader
Our experts are regularly part of technical committees developing new and improving existing standards. We helped to develop ISO 22000 and recently, we contributed to the new food safety Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 220.
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