Understanding and responding to your needs, from risk assessment to crisis management, is the key to our Expert Partners Consultancy approach. Drawing on decades of industry and regulatory expertise, our team assists in securing your product, enhancing control measures, and preserving your brand reputation.

We aim to enhance your operational efficiency by ensuring you stay informed, enabling you to concentrate on essential matters, offering practical tools, optimizing time management, supplying necessary knowledge, tackling challenging tasks, and providing coverage for absent staff when necessary.

What is Quality Assurance?

Every food industry company has to manage the quality of its products. A quality management system (QMS) has to be implemented.

Quality assurance involves a comprehensive framework to ensure products meet predefined standards:

• Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) systematically focus on food safety by identifying hazards and controlling risks.
• Vulnerability Assessment and Critical Control Points (VACCP) extend this to assess and mitigate food fraud vulnerabilities.
• Threat Assessment and Critical Control Points (TACCP) address intentional harm within the supply chain.

Together, these methodologies form a robust system to safeguard quality, integrity, and safety, providing consumers with confidence in the products they consume while maintaining industry compliance.

Building a strong QMS

The core of a robust QMS the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, a continuous improvement methodology:

• “Plan” involves setting objectives and defining processes;
• “Do” entails implementing these processes, including monitoring and measuring performance against objectives;
• “Check” involves analyzing and evaluating results;
• “Act” is making necessary adjustments to improve efficiency.

PDCA fosters a culture of continuous improvement, enabling organizations to identify areas for enhancement, streamline operations, and consistently deliver high-quality products and services, ultimately enhancing customer satisfaction and organizational success.

Therefore, it is imperative to maintain an updated analysis and remain vigilant regarding any modifications as unexpected changes could detrimentally impact your brand reputation. It is crucial to ensure thorough and up-to-date knowledge is effectively applied within your organization.

Quality Assurance is More than Just Standards

Managing multiple standards can be challenging, but integrating them presents an efficiency opportunity. With our expertise, we streamline the process, enabling you to consolidate various standards seamlessly into an effective management system, enhancing your organization’s overall performance.

With our support, you can confidently comply with requirements, enhance credibility, and focus on core business objectives.

The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) provides a global network of recognized food safety standards that provide retailers, manufacturers and food service operators with confidence in sourcing, comparable audit approaches, and above all, safer food for the consumer.

Being certified based on GFSI-recognized schemes introduces your business to the worldwide food industry, signifying adherence to international food safety standards and the prevention of food fraud. This can give you a competitive edge in the industry, even across international markets.

GFSI recognizes several important schemes such as:

• ASIAGAP
• BRCGS
• FSSC 22000
• Global G.A.P.
• IFS
• Primus GFS
• SQF

How can Mérieux Nutrisciences Experts Help You?

Merieux NutriSciences helps your food business develop and grow by assisting you in understanding, implementing and reaching the regulatory requirements, procedures and certifications. We offer a full range of consultancy services covering the entire food value chain  from strategic advice to quality control.