This came up in our BRC audit as well as a corporate internal audit based on BRC about the control of utensils and cutting knives.
Both standards say "sharp metal implements" and the internal goes farther and says "small metal utensils".
However, both auditors insist that it means ALL utensils in the production room need to be signed in and out.
This for us would include slicing blades and safety cutting knives (for pallet wrap) which is easy enough (we have a program in place), but the sheer amount of other utensils is to put it plainly, is not feasible to be tracked that way. I'm talking upwards of a 100 tools daily (cake decorating).
Would a risk assessment showing the likelihood of any of these items ending up in the product and not being detected by the metal detector that we have be enough to show the auditors that we do have controls in place for those things?
Or anyone with similar fights about this?