Hi weaam,
Your traceability test is only required for suppliers that have been approved only via a questionnaire and not by an onsite audit or because they are certified to an appropriate GFSI-benchmarked standard.
Relevant BRCGS Global Standard for Packaging Materials Issue 6 requirements and guidance are outlined below:
3.7.5
The company shall ensure that its suppliers of raw materials have an effective traceability system. Where a supplier has been approved based on a questionnaire instead of certification or audit, verification of the supplier’s traceability system shall be carried out on first approval and then at least every 3 years. This may be achieved by a traceability test.
Interpretation - Supply chain traceability
Examples of acceptable traceability include:
• the raw material supplier is certificated to a GFSI-benchmarked standard. Assessment of traceability systems forms part of these audits ….
• the raw material supplier is audited by the site and the audit includes an assessment of the traceability systems…..
• verification of a supplier’s traceability system where approval has been based solely on a questionnaire with no additional testing ….
Traceability verification is a requirement for each raw material supplier. Therefore any traceability test (because the supplier approval is based solely on a questionnaire) should be designed to test the raw material supplier’s systems and not to trace every single material they produce.
Kind regards,
Tony
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