SQF Certification supplier requirements
If a company is trying to gain SQF certification for its bottling facility what would be the requirements from an SQF perspective for its incoming product if the company also owned the facility making the product but was not seeking SQF certification for that site ?
You would have to do a risk assessment on the vendor(s) as part of an Approved Supplier Program to determine whether or not to use that vendor
without a GFSI is becomes a bit trickier
Do they test each lot? Can you get a CoA or CoC for each lot? What has their past performance been like
Do they have a traceability program in place
Those sorts of things
SQF or gfsi level certification is very strong 3rd party audit.