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QA TECHNIC BRC Global Food Standard
BRC cetification
BRC is a commercial organization which delegates the retail trades in England. Size of the members of this organization can vary from big stores to corner stores. BRC is directly interacting with issues refarding the retailers and the consumers and is trying to highlight the related issues by lobby activities within EU and England.
When examined, it is clearly seen that 38 of the English retailer food market is formed by retailer brands. These products have the same quality standards with branded products and can be alluring to the consumer with its price. If considered that the 60 of total food sales is realized by 5 major retailers, we can get a better idea of how these companies are facing a competition for price, quality and recent developments. As a result of this, England is asking for applying BRC technical requirements, quality managing systems and other specific requirements while exporting products and input in high quantities.
By applying BRC/IOP standard, benefits such as listed below can be reached:
- A privilige is created by being evaluated and documentated by an accredited third party certification organization.
- A useful evaluation criteria is being created both for the suppliers and the producers as the food retailers and the other organizations in the supply chain can get a better picture of the organization.
- No other certification service is needed as the standard includes qualty, hygiene, and product safety issues in detail.
- A system with continuous improvement applying specific quality, hygiene and food safety standards is formed by systematic corrective action and inspections.

Purposes of BRC:
The main purpose of BRC / IOP standard is to identify the security, quality or application criterias for companies who are supplying for any retailer, its supplier or any third party who are using these standards for packaging. The format and content of the standard is designed to inspect all the assets of the company and this inspection is realized by an accredited third party certification organization. The purposes of the standard are as below:
To prevent multi inspection for the same purpose
To minimize conflicting demands of different customers
To spread best practices valid for the whole sector
To support local evaluation ( When being applied, the culture and the conditions in the country should also be evaluated without changing the base norms in the standard)
Supporting transparency and clarity with regard to fair trade
Providing presence of technical consulting committees as well as direct sector investors in improving and implementing the standard.