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- BRCGS certification built for multi-site quality teams
- Create a More Consistent Approach to BRCGS Certification and Audits
- Choose the BRCGS certification path that fits your operation
- Benefits of BRCGS Certification with FoodChain ID
- Success stories
- Build a More Connected Compliance System
- FAQ
- Start with training
- Book a pre-audit
- Explore START!
- Request a Consultation
- BRCGS Resources
BRCGS certification built for multi-site quality teams
Recognized standards. Structured delivery.
25+
years in global food safety compliance
2,500+
auditors with local market expertise
How it Works
Create a More Consistent Approach to BRCGS Certification and Audits
Step 1
Define your BRCGS certification scope
Match the right BRCGS standards and modules to your sites, products and customer requirements.
Step 2
Identify readiness gaps early
Use training, reviews and pre-assessments to reduce surprises and last-minute preparation.
Step 3
Align sites to one audit logic
Create more consistent expectations, documentation and preparation across locations and teams.
Step 4
Complete accredited audits
Complete audits through a structured process that reduces repeat findings.
Step 5
Strengthen performance over time
Use audit outcomes and add-on modules to improve control, culture and ongoing compliance.
Choose the BRCGS certification path that fits your operation
Food manufacturing
For food manufacturers building or strengthening a GFSI-recognized system. Includes BRCGS Food Safety for core site certification, START! for businesses progressing toward full certification, FSMA as an add-on module, and Meat Supply Chain Assurance for meat processors needing broader customer coverage.
Details of the Standard and Benefits
Best fit for manufacturers under retailer or customer audit pressure, expanding into new markets, or trying to standardize audit preparation across sites. Food Safety provides the core framework. START! supports earlier-stage businesses. FSMA adds U.S. regulatory alignment to a BRCGS audit. Meat Supply Chain Assurance helps reduce multiple audits across the meat sector.
Packaging
For packaging manufacturers and converters that need a recognized framework for product safety, quality and legal compliance. BRCGS Packaging Materials supports both high-hygiene and basic-hygiene operations and helps align packaging controls with customer and regulatory expectations.
Details of the Standard and Benefits
Useful when packaging changes, food contact requirements, or customer scrutiny increase pressure on documentation and process control. Applies to packaging used in food production and consumer products. Helps teams create a clearer, more defensible system for audits and customer approval.
Storage and trade
For businesses that store, distribute, buy, sell or facilitate trade in food, packaging and consumer products. Combines BRCGS Storage and Distribution with BRCGS Agents and Brokers to address product safety, quality, legality and traceability beyond the manufacturing site.
Details of the Standard and Benefits
Useful for logistics operations, importers, sales agents and brokers where traceability and supplier oversight can break down across handoffs. Helps bring clearer controls to outsourced or non-manufacturing parts of the supply chain that still affect audit outcomes and customer confidence.
Claims and labels
For businesses making product or consumer-facing claims that require stronger assurance. Includes BRCGS Gluten-Free for sites controling gluten in manufacturing, processing and packing, and BRCGS Plant-Based Certification for brands seeking trusted plant-based verification.
Details of the Standard and Benefits
Best fit when commercial growth depends on credible claims, label confidence and defensible controls. Gluten-Free supports sites manufacturing products with gluten-free assurances. Plant-Based adds third-party certainty for industry and consumers, with current availability in Europe markets.
Culture and improvement
For teams that need better visibility into behaviors and system maturity, not just audit results. Food Safety Culture Assessment helps measure culture, identify improvement areas and support the culture expectations now embedded in BRCGS standards.
Details of the Standard and Benefits
Useful when leaders want to move from reactive preparation to a more preventive system. The assessment helps surface gaps that documentation alone will miss and gives teams a structured way to improve readiness, accountability and consistency over time.
How We Help
Benefits of BRCGS Certification with FoodChain ID
Multi-standard BRCGS certification
Improves audit consistency across sites
Reduced audit variability between sites and auditors
Pre-assessment and readiness support
Find gaps before the audit
Overcome last-minute audit preparation and surprises
Training through FoodChain ID Academy
Build site-level confidence and consistency
Reduce confusion of standard requirements
FSMA add-on module
Adds FSMA to your BRCGS audit
Combine workstreams for customer and regulatory demands
Food Safety Culture Assessment
Surface food safety culture gaps before bigger problems arise
End the guesswork of not knowing where culture gaps exist
Specialist modules and claim standards
Extend assurance to meet niche requirements without adding audit burden
Eliminate duplicate audits
Success stories
“FoodChain ID played a pivotal role in our success, not only as a certification body but as a true partner.”
– Meredith Wickham, Operations Director
Solution
Structured certification support that helped navigate a critical milestone and achieve certification in a sustainable way.
Speak with our team“Other solutions were not going to work for local sites. We needed the native language, and it was very difficult to have that consistency.”
– Richard Vaughan, Group Compliance and Quality Director, Delifrance
Solution
Selected for meeting the customer’s full criteria: BRCGS and IFS across all sites, native-language audits, centralized oversight and predictable 3-year pricing.
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Build a More Connected Compliance System
BRCGS works best when certification, risk monitoring and capability building reinforce each other across sites and suppliers.
FAQ
It depends on your role in the supply chain. Food manufacturers, packaging sites, distributors, brokers and brands may need different BRCGS standards or modules. Choosing the right standard is often part of a broader food safety certification strategy.
Yes. Depending on your needs, BRCGS audits can be paired with add-on modules such as FSMA or Meat Supply Chain Assurance to reduce duplicated audit effort. Companies may also combine retailer-specific requirements with broader retail audit programs.
START! is a stepping stone for businesses building toward full BRCGS Food Safety certification, especially when systems are still maturing. Many organizations also evaluate other GFSI-recognized schemes such as SQF certification depending on customer and market requirements.
Earlier planning, consistent site preparation, training and pre-assessment support help create a more repeatable food safety audit process and reduce variability. Establishing structured food safety management systems such as ISO 22000 can also help improve consistency across locations.
Not always. Food Safety Culture Assessment can complement BRCGS certification by showing behavioral gaps that affect readiness, consistency and improvement.
BRCGS certification is a globally recognized food safety standard that helps businesses demonstrate compliance with industry requirements. It is important because it builds trust with retailers, improves food safety practices, and enables access to new markets. Organizations may also consider schemes such as FSSC 22000 as part of their certification strategy.
A BRCGS food safety certification audit evaluates a company’s food safety management system, including processes, documentation, site conditions, and compliance with the standard. It ensures that products are consistently safe, legal, and meet quality requirements.
Start with training
Build site-level understanding of BRCGS requirements through approved training from FoodChain ID Academy.
Book a pre-audit
Identify nonconformities earlier and reduce last-minute preparation before your certification audit.
Explore START!
See whether BRCGS START! is the right stepping stone for sites not yet ready for full Food Safety certification.
Request a Consultation
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