Food & Beverage
Food safety certification, tested at line rate
ISO 22000 certification for manufacturers, packers and distributors, with auditors who take the hazard study to the floor and check it against the shift running in front of them.
Explore the controls
The operational pressures the audit is read against
Your auditor works from the pressures your teams already carry, not from a blank template.
Relentless customer audit schedules
Retailer and brand audits arrive continuously, each with its own checklist and severity scale.
Hazard control at production speed
CCP monitoring and prerequisite discipline must hold at full line rate, every shift.
Traceability and recall exposure
One-up one-down is not enough when a withdrawal clock is running.
Allergen and labelling risk
The most common recall causes demand validated controls, not assurances.
Field view
Walk the plant. Meet the evidence.
Scroll from the silos to the cold store. Every stop is a hazard an auditor has to see controlled, on the shift in front of them.
Stop 01 / 04
One plant, zero tolerance
Food safety does not average out. One contaminated batch outweighs a thousand good ones, which is why an audit here samples control at the point of production rather than confidence at the front desk.
Standards that matter in food & beverage
Recommended by relevance to the sector's risk profile and customer requirements.
Certification services for this sector
ISO 22000 certification
Stage 1, Stage 2 and an independent certification decision covering the hazard analysis, prerequisite programmes and the management system around them.
Combined audits with ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001
Food safety assessed alongside quality, environment and safety in one visit, so shared requirements are examined once.
Multi-site sampling and transfer
Sampling across plants and depots where the system is genuinely common, and transfer of an active accredited certificate without restarting your cycle.
Pre-assessment, surveillance and training
An optional pre-assessment that reports gaps without prescribing fixes, surveillance in Years 1 and 2, recertification in Year 3, and public training courses.
How the audit runs here
Flows verified on the floor
Process diagrams are checked against the plant as it runs. A diagram that does not match the line is a finding, not a formality.
The auditor needs production and a shift
Certification evidence sits in live CCP monitoring, hygiene entry and changeovers, so the visit is planned onto shifts that are actually running product.
Traceability tested, not described
The auditor selects a lot code and asks the site to trace it in both directions and reconcile mass balance inside the time the system claims.
Findings graded, decision separated
Food safety findings are graded like any other. Majors block the recommendation; the decision is taken by a reviewer outside the audit team.
Sector evidence
Food sector examples will appear here only where a certified organization has approved publication in writing. CORE does not publish client names, product details or audit findings without that consent.
Food & Beverage questions, answered straight
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