Intertek’s Food Assurance services strengthen supply chain transparency, helping businesses verify safety, authenticity, and regulatory compliance from farm to fork.
What is Food Assurance?
Food assurance is the process of verifying that food products meet required safety, quality, regulatory, and ethical standards throughout the supply chain. It brings together auditing, certification, testing, inspection, and risk-management practices to ensure that food is safe, authentic, responsibly produced, and compliant with global regulations.
What are the Benefits of Food Assurance for Your Business?
Food assurance provides measurable value by
- Driving consistency
- Reducing operational risks
- Supporting regulatory compliance.
It enables businesses to improve product quality, enhance efficiency, and confidently enter new markets—all while safeguarding brand integrity and meeting customer expectations.
Supporting Every Stage of the Food Supply Chain
Whether you operate at the farm, factory, distribution, retail, or foodservice level, Intertek provides targeted assurance services tailored to each stage of the food supply chain. Our experts help identify vulnerabilities, validate processes, and ensure that products remain safe, authentic, and compliant from origin to final point of sale.
Why Choose Intertek for Food Assurance?
Intertek is a trusted global leader in quality and safety, providing end-to-end assurance solutions for the food industry. With decades of experience, accredited laboratories, and an unrivalled international network, Intertek supports brands, manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers in reducing risk, ensuring compliance, and maintaining consumer trust.
Our Food Assurance Solutions
Intertek delivers a comprehensive portfolio of food assurance services designed to strengthen safety, quality, and transparency across all stages of production and distribution. From certification and supply-chain auditing to inspection, training, and risk assessment, our solutions help businesses demonstrate best practice and protect their reputation. We also have a comprehensive range of assurance services including scientific and regulatory expertise for a wide range of food and supplement products, ensuring that you comply with all relevant regulatory requirements.
New Food Development
Whether you are developing a new food product or adjusting your product’s ingredients to comply with a range of unhealthy food taxes including the sugar tax, Intertek can provide a comprehensive suite of services to support your objective, including our expert label validation service.
Mitigating Food fraud
To demonstrate your commitment to food safety and minimise the risk of food fraud, we provide a complete traceability programme to help you manage your supply chain.
Additional resources and training programmes:
- Webinar: Mitigate Food Fraud and Food Defence Risk with VACCP & TACCP
- Managing Food Fraud and Food Defence using VACCP & TACCP Training Course - UK
Protect Your Brand with Intertek
The age of the internet has significantly changed how consumers search for products and services. Consumers want to receive the best services, experiences, and quality, and are turning to online reviews to help them make decisions. Effectively managing your brand’s reputation has become more important than ever, having a direct impact on profitability and online visibility.
Intertek's 360° Brand Assurance helps all food establishments including bakeries, restaurants, hotels, catering, fast food chains, coffee shops, e-commerce, and retails and luxury stores with a complete and reliable brand reputation audit program, targeting two pillars of brand reputation: customer satisfaction and health and safety risk management.
Get Started With Intertek Food Assurance
Intertek’s specialists are ready to support your food safety, quality, and compliance goals with tailored assurance strategies. Contact our team to discuss your requirements, request a quote, or learn how our services can integrate seamlessly into your existing food management systems.
By tracing products from their origins with Intertek, and monitoring safety, quality and quantity at every stage of the supply chain, you can guarantee your customers get the best.We can help you minimise the risk of food fraud by implementing an integrated food management system.
As your Supply Chain Management partner we can supervise the entire operation, securing product safety and quality and implementing full traceability. We can also assist with food quality and safety assessments as well as a wide selection of globally recognised food standards such as GLOBALG.A.P., Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Chain of Custody and Roundtable Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
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