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IFS PACsecure
The IFS PACsecure Standard is a globally recognized certification for both food and non-food primary and secondary packaging materials. It is focused on good manufacturing practices, quality, safety, compliance with regulations, customer specifications, and continuous improvement.
The standard is fashioned to complement your current business structure and offers a tailor-made quality management system designed to fit the philosophy and needs of your company. It is the chosen packaging certification for major corporate and independent packaging companies.
IFS PACsecure FACTS
Why you can Trust IFS
The IFS PACsecure Standard is the result of the joint effort of PAC Packaging Consortium and the IFS International Featured Standards. It was developed by a technical working group consisting of leading food and packaging companies in North America to meet the unique processes of the packaging industry.
Benefits of IFS PACsecure
IFS PACsecure is recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) and accepted by retailers and brand owners worldwide. The IFS Scoring System is fair and recognizes the progress of implementation, drives continuous improvement, and the requirements of the standard are risk-based and non-prescriptive. In addition, IFS PACsecure was developed by industry for industry.
IFS Scoring System
The fair and equitable scoring system helps you recognize opportunities for improvement. The differentiated scoring system of IFS allows auditors to evaluate audit findings in regard to the level of compliance with the IFS PACsecure requirements. The audited company can easily derive actions from clearly stated explanations in the report and correct the noticed non-compliances.
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Risk Based Approach
The risk-based approach of IFS provides you the freedom of implementing processes particularly adapted to your business.
Approach
This approach recognizes that you know your products and processes best. With this knowledge, businesses determine, through hazard analysis and risk assessment, the best-suited methods required to monitor and control identified hazards and related risks.
The key factors are that the processes of the business perform and that the safety, quality, customer requirements, and legality are ensured.
IFS auditors assess the effectiveness and implementation of the processes.
Key Factors
The auditor, individually approved and licensed by IFS, verifies whether the solution developed by your business is effective in ensuring product safety, quality, and compliance with regulations and customer specifications.
This type of audit requires a profound knowledge of the specific products and their production. Therefore, the auditors’ qualification is crucial for the value of an IFS Certification.
This is the worldwide working principle of IFS.
What is Involved
The IFS PACsecure standard covers 6 primary areas of the business.
How it Works
These basic steps can help guide your company through the process to certification.
The gap analysis identifies the areas of deficiency and will help you map out a plan to implement the good manufacturing practices, procedures, processes and documentation controls needed to meet the requirements.
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Opportunities
Get IFS Certified
IFS PACsecure certification shows your customers that you care about the safety of the packaging you produce and that you are investing in your future.
IFS Partners
IFS works with certification bodies, auditors and consultants to continually expand products and services to stakeholders, like you, worldwide.
What people say
Greg Reid, General Manager BOXmaster
"The integration of the IFS PACsecure Standard and practices has contributed to BOXmaster providing something unique in our market"
Jay Ashworth, Associated Labels and Packaging
"International Featured Standards PACsecure raises the bar in meeting new stringent government regulations to protect consumers."
Tony Christian, Compliance and Quality Manager, Color Ad Packaging
"We marketed ourselves as IFS PACsecure-certified. We realized that consistently maintaining this standard was extremely important."
Mariana Borella Camera, Garantia da Qualidade Fornecedores - Embalagens, BRF
"We chose to indicate the IFS PACSecure Standard to our suppliers by understanding that in addition to the document evaluation, IFS PACSecure guidelines are oriented to direct evaluations in the production processes. Evaluations with this focus brings benefits to the audited process and confidence for clients on ensuring compliance with the proposed standards."
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