BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 7 Voluntary Module 8 Traded Goods
The voluntary modules published alongside the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 7 have been designed to reduce multiple audits by covering additional specific geographical or customer requirements and auditing them at the same time as the BRC audit.
Voluntary Module 8 (Traded Goods) has been published, and is applicable to food products that would normally fall within the scope of the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 7, but which are not manufactured, further processed or repacked into primary packaging at the site being audited. To be included within the scope of the module, the products shall meet all of the following criteria:
• Be purchased and sold by the company (inter-site transfers or other products onsite which are not purchased and sold by the company are not within the scope of this module)
• Be received into storage facilities on the site (products which are never brought onsite cannot be included in the scope of the module)
• All the storage facilities used for the product shall be included within the scope of the Standard.
Auditor training for the Traded Goods module is included within the Issue 7 training courses and no additional training is required to complete this module.