1 Scope
This policy sets out the requirements for certification to Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) benchmarked standards and Asda specific bolton
audits. It is applicable to all suppliers that manufacture, store, distribute or procure Asda Brand food products for, or on behalf of Asda.
This excludes General Merchandise, George Clothing and Non-edible suppliers (unless otherwise specified by your Category Technical
Manager)
We only accept unannounced GFSI food standards for Asda Brand suppliers.
2 Background
Customers trust us to make sure the food products they buy are exactly what we describe them as. This means that we must all have full
confidence in every step of the production process and supply chain, whether products are supplied directly or indirectly through agents or
importers.
To give full confidence in your quality and safety systems for food and self-owned storage and distribution standards, we only accept
unannounced audits. Whilst we are fully supportive of the GFSI benchmarked schemes, currently only the BRC’s Option 1 scheme operates a
fully unannounced audit which is to the same level as their announced scheme. To meet the right level of confidence, unannounced schemes
must conduct the same audit as their announced scheme and every audit conducted must be completely unannounced.
3 Responsibility
We expect suppliers to produce food products by always operating to good manufacturing practice and procedures at all of your
manufacturing sites and to demonstrate full confidence on safety and quality throughout the supply chain. You, the supplier, are
responsible for ensuring that all sites included within the scope of this policy are fully compliant to its requirements.
We expect agents and importers to ensure that the same level of control is applied to the suppliers and products you are responsible for.