BRCGS Certificate
Jun 17,2025
- Period:
- Sep 29,2024 - Oct 22,2025
- No.:
- CQC24BR0251R0S/2100
- Certification bodies:
- CQC
The BRCGS (British Retail Consortium Global Standards) is a leading global framework ensuring safety, quality, and operational integrity across food, packaging, cosmetics, and consumer products. Originating in the UK food industry, it serves as a benchmark for regulatory compliance, consumer trust, and supply chain resilience—critical for entering competitive markets, especially in Europe and North America.
Core Compliance Principles
Built on five pillars:
1.Food Safety Management: Requires HACCP systems to identify and mitigate biological, chemical, and physical risks.
2.Quality Management: Ensures robust product development, testing, and traceability for consistency and legal compliance.
3.Product Safety & Legality: Guarantees safety, regulatory adherence (e.g., labeling, allergens), and quality standards.
4.Site Standards: Mandates hygiene, sanitation, and facility design to prevent contamination via pest control, staff training, and equipment maintenance.
5.Supply Chain Management: Extends compliance to suppliers, emphasizing transparency, ethical sourcing, and risk management.
Cross-Industry Applications
BRCGS applies to:
Food & Beverage: Ensures safety for manufacturers and processors.
Food Packaging: Validates materials for food-contact safety.
Cosmetics/Personal Care: Confirms ingredient safety and regulatory compliance (e.g., EU Cosmetics Regulation).
Consumer Products: Safeguards non-food items like household cleaners.
Logistics: Sets standards for storage and distribution to maintain product integrity.
Business Benefits
Market Access: Required by major retailers (Tesco, Walmart) for EU/UK entry.
Trust & Compliance: Enhances brand reputation and aligns with global regulations (EU FSA, FDA).
Operational Efficiency: Reduces waste, recall risks, and audit efforts via standardized protocols.
Supply Chain Advantage: Facilitates partnerships with certified suppliers/distributors.
Challenges & Future
Investment: Costs for audits, training, and infrastructure upgrades.
Adaptation: Keeping pace with evolving standards (e.g., sustainability).
Innovation: Integration of digital tools (blockchain, IoT) for traceability and ESG (environmental, social, governance) focus.
Zhongye Foods (Dalian) Co., Ltd. has demonstrated significant compliance advantages and technical strength in the BRCGS (British Retail Consortium Global Standard) certification, especially excelling in food safety management, production process control, and supply chain transparency.
1. Food safety management system and quality control
System certification and standard coverage: Zhongye Foods has passed international authoritative certifications such as HACCP. The company has established a full-process monitoring mechanism from raw material procurement to finished product delivery. Through automatic filling production lines and advanced quality inspection centers, each batch of products is strictly inspected to ensure that they meet international food safety standards.
Third-party testing and risk control: In the random inspections conducted by the market supervision department in 2023, no products of Zhongye Foods were found to be substandard, demonstrating its strict control over product quality. The 9th edition of BRCGS requires enterprises to conduct regular third-party testing and keep records. The random inspection results of Zhongye Foods prove that it exceeds the industry average in terms of risk control.
2. Production process control and technological innovation
Automated and intelligent production: The company has independently developed patented equipment such as salad dressing emulsification devices and automatic packaging machines for compound seasonings. These technologies not only enhance production efficiency but also reduce human errors by precisely controlling process parameters, meeting the BRCGS requirements for traceability and consistency in the production process.
Food safety culture construction: The 9th edition of BRCGS emphasizes the continuous improvement of food safety culture. Zhongye Foods regularly launches new products and optimizes production processes through its R&D center, demonstrating its long-term investment in technological innovation and quality enhancement.
3. Supply Chain Management and Traceability
Supplier Management: Zhongye Foods has established strict supplier evaluation standards, including qualification review, sample trial use, factory inspection and other links, and ensures the safety of raw materials through a three-level inspection system (sensory acceptance, microbiological testing, and third-party random inspection). This systematic supplier management model complies with the requirements of BRCGS for supply chain risk control.
4. Facilities, Equipment and personnel management
Hardware facility compliance: The layout of Zhongye Foods' production workshop complies with the BRCGS requirements for hygiene zoning, and the equipment maintenance records are complete, ensuring that the production environment meets international standards.
Personnel training and qualifications: As a high-tech enterprise, the proportion of scientific and technological personnel at Zhongye Foods is much higher than the industry average. The members of the R&D team cover professional fields such as food science and biotechnology.
The BRCGS certification is not only a "touchstone" for the technical strength and management level of Zhongye Foods (Dalian) Co., Ltd., but also an "accelerator" for it to expand the international market and deepen customer cooperation. By obtaining certification, Nakano's advantages in food safety, technological innovation, supply chain management and other aspects have been endorsed by authorities, providing industry clients with all-round value ranging from compliance guarantee to market competitiveness enhancement. In the future, as the BRCGS standards further strengthen their requirements for sustainability and digitalization, Zhongye Foods' technological reserves and innovation capabilities will continue to transform into market advantages, consolidating its leading position in the food processing sector.
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