A contract manufacturer is one that either makes your product and packages it into your branded packaging or packs a product into your branded packaging.
Either way and for all intents and purposes it appears to the consumer to come from your company even though made/packed by another company.
The major requirement is that a contract manufacturer will need to be SQF certified like your company is, or any GFSI Cert or as the last resort mirror all the requirements of your SQF program - my feeling is if a company is going to do that they might as well get certified.
I have a client that has five contract manufacturers and each one is SQF or BRC certified.
There are a couple of other requirements for a contract manufacturer as well, such as agreements, etc.
What you have there however is not a contract manufacturer, just a supplier and if you send your secret ingredient list to them you better have a strong non-disclosure in place.
Edited by SQFconsultant, 18 December 2019 - 07:13 PM.
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