Ensure food safety excellence with comprehensive food safety audits and solutions for supermarkets, food outlets and retail chains
For food retailers, maintaining consistent standards across suppliers, stores and supply chains can be challenging. At Intertek, our auditing services help retail businesses assess performance against their requirements and industry standards, helping:
- Ensure compliance with regulations and industry standards.
- Identify risks before they become liabilities.
- Build confidence with your customers, partners, and teams
How Intertek helps retail businesses:
Whether you're managing a global supplier network or strengthening your retail operations, the right audit programme can help turn visibility into action.
We offer a flexible, risk-based approach to auditing that meets the unique needs of UK retailers, including:
Ensure at the store level that proper protocols are followed for food safety, hygiene, display advertising, health and safety, environmental management, as well as other critical operational metrics. Adherence to these items is measured via scheduled or unannounced audits.
Assess food manufacturers, processors, and co-packers for compliance with your safety and quality standards and those of national or international requirements.
Independent evaluations of private label products for food safety, labelling, and regulatory compliance.
In-depth site assessments covering hygiene practices, pest control, allergen management, and good manufacturing practices.
Auditing to BRCGS Food Safety, START! or Storage & Distribution, FSSC 22000, IFS, and ISO 22000—or bespoke audit frameworks built around your brand requirements.
Support suppliers in addressing non-conformities with practical, time-bound improvement plans.
Combine food safety with assessments aligned to social compliance (SMETA, SEDEX), environmental impact, and modern slavery requirements.
Our team of world-class Technical Managers and Consultants have a wealth of industry experience across all sectors of the food supply chain. and can help with projects such as supplier management, compliance monitoring, policies and codes of practice, specification management, crisis management and continuous improvement.
Through our global network of sustainability experts and integrated Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification solutions, we are uniquely placed to help organisations understand, achieve and validate their existing and emerging sustainability goals for their products, assets, facilities, systems, processes and environment.
Design and delivery of training programmes for employees, including food handling, food safety, health and safety, environmental practices and more. Training services are delivered via e-learning, webinars, onsite or Microbiology public training.
Food testing is integral to the efficient production of safe, quality products. Intertek’s own network of testing laboratories providers a comprehensive range of food testing services including:
- Shelf Life Testing
- Chemical & Nutritional Requirements
- Migration Testing in Food Packaging
- GMOs
- Honey Authenticity
- Pesticides
- Contaminants (Mycotoxins)
- And more
Get in touch to learn how Intertek retail audit services can support your business.
