BRC IOP Packaging Standard: Scope and Content

BRC IOP packaging standard: scope and content

The BRC IOP standard, developed jointly by the British Retail Consortium and the Institute of Packaging (IOP), exists to help retailers and food manufacturers meet their legal duties on product safety. It sets out the hygiene, quality, and traceability requirements a packaging supplier must demonstrate before retailers will accept its materials into the supply chain.

By giving retailers a single common basis for auditing packaging suppliers of food products, the standard protects the consumer from contamination risks that originate in the packaging itself rather than in the food.

For safe food consumption, packaging used in private-label products must pass the appropriate control systems and inspections before it reaches the filling line. BRC IOP formalises those controls into a single audit scheme that retailers and brand owners recognise.

The standard protects consumers by holding the manufacturers of food-contact packaging to the same level of scrutiny that applies to the food producers themselves.

Main sections of the standard

• Scope
• Organisation and senior management commitment
• Hazard and risk management system
• Technical management system
• Factory standards
• Contamination control
• Personnel
• Risk category assignment
• Assessment protocol

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