IFS Food Certification

IFS is a common food safety standard that helps retailers to ensure the food safety of their products and monitors the quality level of producers of retailer branded food products.

What is IFS Certification?

An International Featured Standard (IFS) certification shows that the certified company has established processes which are suitable for ensuring food and/or product safety, and that it has considered and implemented customer specifications.

Certification is open to food manufacturers, brokers, logistics providers, manufacturers of household and hygiene products as well as wholesalers. Cotecna provides certification against the IFS Food Standard. The
requirements are related to the quality management system and the HACCP system (Hazard Analysis &
Critical Control Points), supported by detailed prerequisite programmes, that is a set of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice), GLP (Good Laboratory Practice) and GHP (Good Hygiene Practice) requirements.

Benefits of IFS Food Certification

1. Risk-based, non-prescriptive standards
2. Action plans to improve performance
3. A uniform system of quality assurance
4. Fewer recalls
5. Optimised processes
6. Greater competitiveness
7. Improved relations with customers and authorities, as well as improved business opportunities and international recognition
8. Global network (data for own supplier and retailer search)

How to get IFS Food certified?

Cotecna provides clients with an accredited certification against the IFS Food standard. Customers willing to undergo certification need to complete the application and contract agreement process following which an initial or re-certification audit will be carried out. Certificates are issued with an annual validity and needs to be renewed every year.

Request a Certification

To request an audit, or for more information on the certification process, please don’t hesitate to contact us.