Accreditation
SALSA accreditation
SALSA accreditation provides great opportunities to gain new customers and expand into new markets — with mentoring and audit support from Safer Food Scores.
What is SALSA?
SALSA food accreditation explained
SALSA (Small and Local Supplier Approval) is an independent food safety accreditation. A properly conducted SALSA audit is recognised by supermarkets and large organisations as proof that high food safety standards are in place and that a food company is safe to supply.
SALSA is a flexible and less onerous food safety standard than BRC Global (now BRCGS). It is available to small and micro businesses typically employing 5–50 full-time staff.
The pathway
How to obtain SALSA Food Accreditation
From assembling your HACCP team through to a successful certification audit, we guide you through each step.
- 01 Assemble a HACCP team
- 02 Devise HACCP plans for each product or product group
- 03 Develop food safety pre-requisite programmes
- 04 Arrange food, water and surface sampling
- 05 Gap analysis against the latest SALSA Food Standard
- 06 Introduce additional controls if required
- 07 Fully implement your food safety management system
- 08 Join SALSA and book a SALSA auditor
- 09 Achieve certification if the audit is successful
Mentoring
How we can help you
We mentor food manufacturers and central production kitchens to achieve SALSA food accreditation. We meet to understand your operation, run a gap analysis against the latest SALSA Food Standard, and provide a clear action plan.
If required we train your HACCP teams, devise HACCP plans and pre-requisite programmes, arrange sampling and interpret lab reports. We book and attend the SALSA audit with you, and can visit regularly afterwards to keep standards upheld.
Next step
Make an enquiry about SALSA accreditation
Tell us about your sites and priorities — we’ll recommend the right mix of consultancy, audits or mentoring.