Quality Assurance Standards
Mark Ryland Associates has experience of developing, implementing and managing the following Quality Assurance Standards with clients.
ISO Standards
ISO 9001 is an international reference for quality requirements in business to business dealings, ISO 14001 helps organisations meet their environmental challenges and ISO 22000 enables organisations meet the requirements of food safety legislation.
- ISO 9001:2000 Quality Assurance Standard
- ISO 14001 Environmental Standard
- ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Standard
Agricultural Industries Confederation (www.agindustries.org.uk)
Agricultural Industries Confederation is the Scheme Manager of the following schemes which provide assurance in the feed, food and fertilizer supply chain.
- Universal Feed Assurance Scheme (UFAS)
- Feed Material Assurance Scheme (FEMAS)
- Trade Assurance Scheme for Combinable Crops (TASCC)
- Fertiliser Industry Assurance Scheme (FIAS)
These schemes were developed to help prevent major feed and food safety scares and ensure fertiliser security in response to customer, Industry, governments and stakeholders requirements.
British Retail Consortium Global Standards (www.brc.org.uk)
The British Retail Consortium responding to Industry needs has developed the BRC Global Standards which are used not only to assess food suppliers but as a framework by which many company's have based their supplier assessment programme's. The development of the BRC Global Standards was initially driven by the need to meet legislative requirements of the EU General Product Safety Directive and the UK Food Safety Act, but was quickly seen as having significant benefits to the suppliers of products to UK retailers.
Mark Ryland Associates has experience of developing, implementing and managing the following BRC Global Standards with clients.
- BRC Global Standard - Food
- BRC Global Standard - Storage and Distribution