A considerable amount of time was spent on reviewing the internal auditing programme which was found to be extremely complexed and very difficult to understand. There is a need for this programme to undergo a fundamental review and fior it to be simplified. Concerns were also raised that does not appear to be the correct identification of critical, major and minor non conformances. Equally, we saw a audit conducted of the traceability system against the BRC clauses for traceability which identified the apparent 'lost' of a batch of raw material, which had been incorrectly classified as minor non conformance, when in fact the BRC standard defines this as a fundamental non conformance.