The Vendor Approval Policy should be designed to specifically address the criteria needed to justify the purchase of a particular vendor’s ingredients, packaging materials, supplies and equipment. Manufacturers of Food for human consumption are in the business to develop new and exciting products using a variety of natural and artificial ingredients, food safe packaging materials, food-safe sanitation chemicals, supplies and equipment. It is a Standard Operating Procedure to evaluate each new Vendor (supplier) based on strict food safety, quality, and service standards before approval and purchase. These decisions to purchase should be grounded on stringent product usage specifications; vendor applied quality controls, availability in the market, delivery times, and not just competitive pricing.
Experior Food Safety Solution’s Vendor Approval TEMPLATE spells out in great detail the food safety and quality considerations of the GFSI standards. These food safety and quality TEMPLATES are designed to assist your processing teams to be simply modified to accurately describe process accuracy for the completion all SOP’s in your manufacture of human foods. (Only certain, “low-risk” processes of food production have been TEMPLATED.)
For more information on pre-written Food Safety Policies, please visit us at foodsafetypolicies.com and request a sample of a Food Safety Management System for you to explore as a solution to your Standard Operating Procedure needs.