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Document No.
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Audit Title
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Client / Site
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Conducted on
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Prepared by
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Location
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Personnel
4.1 - FORMULATION CHANGES (BASE)
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Changes in formulation must be adequately assessed for legal, safety and quality issues, discussed and agreed with your Customer Technical contact.
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All product development must be assessed against the HACCP plan by the HACCP team to ensure the HACCP is still appropriate.
4.2 - FACTORY TRIALS (BASE)
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The site must undertake and document factory trials and complete thorough testing to verify product formulation and manufacturing processes are capable of producing safe and legal products.
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The site must have a development handover process that ensures that approved development formulations and packaging materials are correctly transferred to manufacturing for the first production run and that the specification is consistently achieved.
4.3 - SHELF LIFE TESTING (BASE)
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Shelf life must be established through testing.
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As a minimum this must include: - product formulation<br>- microbiological growth - packaging process and material - factory environment - subsequent storage conditions - likely consumer use - temperature stability
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Records must be retained.
4.4 - NUTRITIONAL TESTING (BASE)
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Nutritional testing must be carried out and checked against proposed product label and specification prior to launch.
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Manual calculations can be used in some instances; however this must be agreed by your Customer Technical contact.
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Where a nutritional claim is made (e.g. <2% fat, high in omega 3, Free From) these claims must be challenged and verified using worst case scenarios.
4.5 - PRODUCT CLAIMS (BASE)
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Where product claims are made, documentary evidence must be available on site to substantiate these.
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This may include, although this is not an exhaustive list: - Provenance - Welfare - Allergens - Speciation - Free from - GMO free - Method of production(e.g. not from concentrate) or slaughter - Method of ingredient growing (e.g. organic/chemical free) - Suitable for vegetarian or vegans - Any quantitative recipe claims
4.6 - PACKAGING PERFORMANCE (BASE)
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Performance and durability of product and packaging must be conducted through testing (e.g. transit trials, stack testing.)
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Packaging design and testing must take into account how the product is sold (e.g. sale in store or supply direct to the consumer.)
