BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9, encoded.

The standard United Kingdom retailers ask for, loaded as live requirements: fundamentals flagged, clause by clause, with the traceability test your auditor will time.

Issue numbers, stated. Always.

Templates and requirement sets are written to BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9 and Packaging Materials Issue 7, and every document shows its issue mapping in the register. When BRCGS publishes a new issue, subscribers receive the update with a gap view, included.

The fundamentals get special treatment

The BRCGS toolkit spans 220+ documents and 580+ pages as at August 2026, structured to the standard's own chapters: senior management commitment, the food safety plan, the management system, site standards and product control.

BRCGS marks certain clauses as fundamental. Fail the statement of intent of a fundamental clause and no certificate is issued, whatever your other scores. The system flags every record linked to a fundamental clause and escalates a missed check immediately, not at month end.

  • Senior management commitment: management review packs generated from live data
  • Traceability (clause 3.9): the four-hour test runs in minutes, on demand
  • Internal audits: scheduled, evidenced and trended across the year
  • Corrective action: root cause recorded, effectiveness verified, closed with evidence

Four sector packages

Food Manufacturing, Packaging Materials, Storage and Distribution, and Agents and Brokers, each scoped to its own issue and its own audit protocol. Packaging converters: your migration control, hygienic zoning and artwork controls are first-class citizens here, not an afterthought.