BRC & ISO AUDITS

DANIEL MIFSUD, FOOD SAFETY MANAGER

With pleasure we can inform that Farsons has reconfirmed its ‘AA’ Grade in the BRCGS Food Safety Audit and its continued compliance to ISO9001:2015 in two separate third party audits held last February.

While these are very satisfactory results, this does not mean that our work is complete. This simply means that we need to keep working harder than ever to improve our management systems for these to remain relevant in a rapidly changing compliance landscape, futureproof them as best as we can, exploit the opportunities that have been formally flagged by the two audits in the here and now, as well as exploit others that were not flagged yet were identified by the Farsons team during the course of the audits and inspection. Getting the certification is certainly fantastic, but there remains more value to be gained by learning lessons and implementing improvements with every external audit experience.

These encouraging results would not have been possible without everyone’s concerted input, effort, and support. So, this is a word of thanks to all those who contributed, but it is also an invitation to all to keep working hard to strengthen our Food Safety and Quality Management Systems across the board.

In the beginning of March of this year Farsons was also subjected to a three-day AIB unannounced audit. We achieved a preliminary score of 800 which