The document discusses the International Featured Standard (IFS) Broker, which is a certification standard for companies that buy goods and deliver them directly to customers. The IFS Broker standard was created in 2010 and aims to ensure brokers have implemented food safety and quality measures to monitor compliance at supplier facilities. Auditors must pass an exam and have experience in the sector being audited. Audits are a minimum of 8 hours and assess companies against 71 requirements across various areas like product development, purchasing, and traceability. Certification is valid for 12 months at either a basic or higher level depending on audit results.
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1. Safety Food Management
International
Featured
Standards
IFS Broker
October 2011 Pavan, Marion, Maxime, Quentin, Eugenia
2. History
History
Objectives
Reason for setting
up
Main Target New IFS standard
Auditor and Suitable for companies that buy goods and
certification body
delivery directly to customers
Duration of the
audit
Available since january 2010
Assesment
Main requirements
Focus on
requirements
3. Objectives
History
Objectives
Reason for setting “The new IFS Broker checks to see whether
up
brokers / importers have implemented
Main Target
appropriate measures in their processes to
Auditor and ensure that their suppliers operate in
certification body
accordance with food safety and quality
Duration of the requirements and to monitor compliance in
audit
order for the products supplied to meet legal
Assesment
requirements and contractual specifications.”
Main requirements
Focus on
requirements
4. Reason for setting up
History
Objectives
IFS Broker : Trading partners expect
Reason for
setting up brokers and importers to communicate
Main Target
their product requirements to
manufacturers and that these will be
Auditor and
certification body understood and implemented.
Duration of the
IFS Cash and Carry : All handling
audit activities of loose and unpacked products
Assesment in Cash & Carry-markets or wholesale
Main requirements
companies.
Focus on
requirements
5. Main Target
History
Objectives
Reason for setting
up
Used for all brokers independently of the
products
Main Target
Auditor and
certification body Can be applied to brokers in the Food, in
Duration of the the areas of Non-Food and HPC (hygiene
audit personal care)
Assesment
Main requirements
Focus on
requirements
6. Auditor and certification body
History Auditors must be certified IFS
Objectives
Reason for setting
up
Compulsory to pass an exam and to know
the sector of the company audited
Main Target
(experience of 2 years in the same sector)
Auditor and
certification body
Duration of the
3 categories:
audit Food auditors for Food broker
Assesment HPC auditors for HPC brokers
Non-food auditors for Non-food brokers
Main requirements
Focus on
requirements
7. Auditor and certification body
History
Auditors work for certification body
Objectives
Reason for setting
up Certification body has to be certified EN
Main Target 45 011
Auditor and
certification body 37 certification bodies in the world for
Duration of the IFS brokers
audit
Assesment
Example:
Main requirements
AENOR
Focus on
requirements
Veritas
LRQA
8. Duration of the audit
History
Objectives
Reason for setting Duration minimum: 8 hours
up
Main Target
Depends on:
Auditor and
certification body
size of the company
Number of supplier
Duration of the Number of customers
audit
Scope of service activities
Assesment
Main requirements
Focus on
requirements
9. Assesment
History
Objectives 71 requirement
Reason for setting A / B / C and D assessments for every requirement
up Two level of certification:
Main Target Basic level at 75% - 95% points
Higher level from 95% points
Auditor and
certification body
Major non-conformities (similar to the IFS Food
definitions)
Duration of the
audit
9 K.O. criteria
Assesment
Certification’s validity: 12 months irrespective of the
Main requirements level
Focus on
requirements
10. Main requirements
History
Objectives
Already in IFS standard
Responsibility of company management
Reason for setting
up Quality management systems
Main Target Resource management
Auditor and Service provision
certification body
Duration of the
audit Newly formulated chapters
Assesment /requirements for brokers
Product development
Main
requirements Purchasing
Focus on
requirements
11. Focus on requirements
History
Objectives
Reason for
setting up
HACCP / risk management
Main Target
Traceability
Auditor and
certification body Product analysis
Duration of the Supplier selection
audit
Product Packaging
Assesment
Main
requirements
Focus on
requirements