Consulting and expert reports for food
When food is produced, processed and placed on the market, companies are constantly facing new challenges in terms of safety, hygiene and quality. WESSLING accompanies your processes with individual expert services - in connection with reliable sampling and precise analysis.
Expert services for food: We support you, with specific services from our highly qualified experts, in implementing the complex food law requirements that varied national, European and international laws, regulations, guidelines, and recommendations impose on you. Depending on your requirements, the individual service packages for food hygiene and safety can include marketability assessments, conformity tests or labelling and declaration tests.
In addition, our specialists prepare expert opinions, official cross-checks according to §43 LFGB and support you, if necessary, with targeted crisis management. We advise and train on GFSI standards such as IFS, BRC, FSSC 22000, HACCP and hygiene issues.
Expert services for food: services in detail
Expert services for food: services in detail
Marketability expert reports for food
Marketability expert reports for food
Anyone who brings food into circulation is subject to a number of national, European and international regulations. Our state-examined food chemists are recognised experts and are highly familiar with the complex variety of laws, directives, regulations, guidelines and recommendations. We will provide you with competent, friendly and reliable advice on all matters including labelling and marketability.
Missing or incorrect information may be regarded as consumer deception. Missing data concerning allergens, for instance, can even result in health risks and public recalls. In addition, consumers must not be misled by nutritional value- and health-related statements, so-called health claims. Information on advertising with health- and nutritional value-related data is regulated as part of regulation (EU) no. 1924/2006.
Our experts support you in meeting all marketability and labelling requirements.
Labelling check for international markets
Food exports have risen sharply in the last few years. In order for food be also marketed successfully abroad, the labelling/declaration must comply with the food legislation provisions of the respective country. In all EU member states, this is regulated by food information regulation (EC) 1169/2011. However, country-specific regulations also often exist as well. Our experts are available to you with their extensive know-how for many countries within and outside of the EU – from specialist consulting during label creation to translations and food law checks for the destination countries.
Expert services for food: services in detail
Official cross-check
Official cross-check according to Section 43 of the German Food and Feed Code (LFGB)
Benefit from our high number of specialists with approval as experts for analysing officially retained samples in the sense of Section 43 (1(2)) of the German Food and Feed Code (LFGB). This refers to chemical, chemical-physical, molecular biological and microbiological analyses of foods.
Our experts analyse and evaluate your cross-check or duplicate sample as quickly as possible, thus giving you confidence for your further procedure. Our objective is to ensure product safety and prevent possible damage to your brand by means of handling concepts.
Background: during official inspections of food producers or traders, food samples are taken and analysed in an official laboratory. The food inspector is obliged either to leave part of the sample behind on site or, if this is not possible, to take a second sample and hand it to the producer. In this way, foods or raw materials can be counter-checked in a private laboratory by the counter-check expert approved for this task.
Expert services for food: services in detail
Crisis management for the food industry
Crisis management for the food industry
We will support you if a crisis occurs within your company: if the results of your food samples ever reveal deviations in quality or safety, our competent experts are on hand to help you. They offer long-term experience in handling crisis situations, and provide you with neutral and independent advice so that you are able to act as quickly as possible.
Expert services for food: services in detail
Introduction and optimisation of QM systems for the food industry
Introduction and optimisation of QM systems for the food industry
Customers, food retailers and the authorities are making ever increasing requirements on food product safety and quality. Almost without exception, they are demanding certification recognised by the GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) from food producers.
IFS, BRC and FSSC 22000 – food safety standards
Food producers, logistics service providers and retailers all face the same challenge: they all require certification according to a GFSI standard. The IFS is a range of certification standards, the International Featured Standards. The original IFS Food is required by almost every food producer that supplies German retailers. The IFS Logistics (for transport and storage activities), the IFS Broker (for trading activities) and the IFS Cash & Carry (for wholesalers) have also become established alongside this.
The BRC standard was developed in 1998 by the British Retail Consortium and bears its name. Almost all retailers in the United Kingdom now demand certification as per the BRC from their suppliers – including those abroad.
The FSSC 22000, the abbreviation of Food Safety System Certification 22000, is based on the requirements of the ISO 22000 standard and was introduced for the first time in 2009. It is globally recognised as proof of a comprehensive food safety management system.
Our range of services:
- Help in developing, implementing and optimising your quality management system
- Development of practical solution approaches tailored to your company
- Checking and creation of the documents, records and risk analyses required for quality management, including an HACCP concept
- On-site services: performance of company inspections, internal audits or assessments
- Supplier audits, unannounced on request
- Accompaniment of external certification audits
- Planning and conducting in-house training courses for your team
Expert services for food: services in detail
HACCP concepts for the food industry
HACCP concepts for the food industry
HACCP – Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points. This concept is a self-check system for detecting and controlling health risks in food production.
We create your individual HACCP concept
An HACCP concept must fit the respective company. It has to pick up on the individual product and process risks in detail and evaluate them in a risk-oriented manner. Each HACCP concept therefore follows individual issues and guidelines. Together with you, our experts use this to develop the right solution for your company.
Our range of services:
- Development of the HACCP concept under consideration of the company-specific IFS, BRC or FSSC 22000 standards
- Support in creating and optimising all relevant contents and documents as per the Codex Alimentarius
- Risk assessment by our specialists
- Inspection of your company
- Accompaniment of the verification process
Expert services for food: services in detail
Audits for the food industry
Audits for the food industry
Your company is due for initial certification or re-certification? You want to determine and eliminate any weak points in advance? The independent checks performed by our specialists provide you with confidence for your external audit.
Our range of services:
- Flexible planning and execution of audits by our competent, experienced auditors
- Internal audits for the industry-specific IFS, BRC and FSSC 22000 standards or for DIN EN ISO 9001
- Execution of internal audits that are mandatory according to standards
- Neutral check of adherence to legal specifications
- Independent check of your in-house management system for the conformity you require
- Assessment of the effectiveness of your management system, also with the aid of company and hygiene inspections
- Development and implementation of an individual audit program for your company
- Announced or unannounced audits
- Revelation of possible optimisation potentials, recommendations for improvement measures, implementation planning together with you
- Performance of supplier audits
The utmost confidentiality regarding all audit results and our customers' know-how is a matter of course for us.
Your contact to expert services in the food sector
- Till Hasenzahl
- +49 2505 89-633
- food@wessling.de
„Thanks to my many years of experience, I know exactly what our customers need. Ensuring the safety and quality of their food is our common goal.“
