Food fraud risk in flexible packaging industry
We completed our food fraud assessment on all our raw materials that are supplied to us and after doing them we found that all of our raw materials are low risk based on our supplier partnerships, history, and testing we do on the products when they are received. Since our risk assessment found all our raw materials to be low risk do we need to complete a mitigation plan? Wanted to get feed back from other flexible packaging companies who have completed their food fraud assessments.
I did the vulnerability assessment but have not been audited yet. Our audit is in early November so I am hoping and preparing for the best :-) We are a company that makes direct and indirect food contact packaging. We are low risk as well, but I would rather have it and not need it then risk a nonconformance on our SQF audit.
We completed our food fraud assessment on all our raw materials that are supplied to us and after doing them we found that all of our raw materials are low risk based on our supplier partnerships, history, and testing we do on the products when they are received. Since our risk assessment found all our raw materials to be low risk do we need to complete a mitigation plan? Wanted to get feed back from other flexible packaging companies who have completed their food fraud assessments.
Hi thunder,
I guess it depends on what yr Fraud/Mitigation Procedur/Plan actually states in respect to the results of the FF assessment.
There are some examples of Procedural "pairings" in earlier FF threads here.
Perhaps additionally also have a look at this recent thread -
We also found our raw material supply risk to be low (food contact flexible packaging), but we included 'monitoring' (industry or customer complaints) as our supplier mitigation plan. We also included an internal mitigation plan that was based on our Food Defense.
We successfully passed our audit in August.
I would recommend adding mitigation strategies that you already have implemented. Supplier approval process, requiring COAs, trailer inspections, etc.
Even if low risk, you likely still have mitigation strategies like truck seals etc.
Document the ones you have with your risk assessment for a simple audit. I have a recommended template for SQF here that I was successful with.