Food safety audits and vegan certification: A comprehensive approach
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- Continually improve results through discovering and refining practices
- Improve processes and efficiencies
- Manage risks and demonstrate proof of due diligence and compliance
- Reduce costs and save time
- Identify greater opportunities for growth and market access
- Comply with regulations
- Gain a competitive advantage
- Enhance your credibility, and the trust and confidence of your customers
- Promote an even playing field for all organizations
As a leading accredited body with decades of experience, we operate with the utmost competence and trust, delivering the highest quality service at global and local levels. Our accreditation means that we can certify your people, processes and products with confidence.
Transparency, independence and integrity are key to delivering our services. We comply with the highest standards to maintain our accreditations, so you can be sure of our competence. We have teams of highly skilled, reliable and ethical assessors and technical experts, whose skills and abilities are continually assessed.
Why choose food audit & certification solutions from SGS?
Understand the importance of both food safety audits and vegan certification in today's market while prioritizing safety, quality and sustainability.
What is the certification process?
Food safety audits and certification
Food manufacturers and retailers expect their suppliers to be certified to recognized food safety standards. These demonstrate a commitment by management and the company to ensuring the food and food ingredients they produce are safe and compliant.
SGS provides the food industry with audit and certification solutions against a variety of standards that include:
- Codex Guidelines based HACCP
- ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems
- International Featured Standard (IFS) Food and Broker Certification
- BRCGS - Food Safety, Packaging, Storage & Distribution
- FSSAI Factory Assessments
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP) Certification
- Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC)
- Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)
Vegan and vegetarian product labeling with audit and certification
Assure consumers of the authenticity of your vegan or vegetarian products.
As environmental, animal welfare, and personal health concerns are propelling the rise in vegan and vegetarian food consumption, it's essential to provide consumers with authentic vegan or vegetarian products.
Certify your vegan offerings for Global G.A.P. and V-Label
Apply to the GFCO program. Provide details about all products and facilities that you would like to be considered for certifications.
Conduct a gap audit in preparation for an on-site audit.
Book your audit with SGS
Upon passing your audit and obtaining permission to use the GFCO logo, you would need to uphold the integrity of your certification by scheduling your annual facility audit and submitting your gluten analysis results.
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Steps to certification
SGS is the world’s leading Testing, Inspection and Certification company. We operate a network of over 2,700 laboratories and business facilities across 119 countries, supported by a team of 99,250 dedicated professionals. With over 145 years of service excellence, we combine the precision and accuracy that define Swiss companies to help organizations achieve the highest standards of quality, safety and compliance.
Enhancing products, processes, systems and skills is fundamental to your ongoing success and sustained growth. We enable you to continuously improve, transforming your products, services and value chain by increasing performance, managing risks, better meeting stakeholder requirements, and managing sustainability.
With a global presence, we have a history of successfully executing large scale, complex international projects. Our people speak the language, understand the culture of the local market and operate globally in a consistent, reliable and effective manner
Why SGS India?
Food safety audits and certification
Vegan certification
Ensure safety and sustainability through food certification
- Vegan Certification (V-Label): SGS offers audit and certification services for the V-Label, ensuring vegan and vegetarian product quality and transparency.
- Gluten-Free Certification (GFCO): SGS certifies products with 10ppm or less of gluten, meeting GFCO standards for gluten-free safety and compliance.
- Global GAP Certification: SGS provides farm assurance certification for sustainable agricultural practices, enhancing food safety management and market access.
- Organic Certification: SGS certifies organic products under NPOP, ensuring compliance with organic standards and traceability in the supply chain.
SGS offers certification services for various standards:
- Understand the standard – we can help you to understand the requirements
- Get in touch – tell us what standard you are aiming for, and we will provide a detailed proposal and quote
- Competence – identify any skill and competence gaps that your staff may have. We can provide training and workshops to support
- Gap assessment – identify any weaknesses
- Stage 1 – confirmation that implementation of the standard is on track
- Stage 2 – confirmation that the standard is fully implemented
- Certification – we will issue your certificate, outlining the scope, after which you can share your achievement with the world. Your stakeholders can check your certification via our client directory
- Ongoing improvement – regular surveillance visits to help you maintain and enhance your management system
What is the certification process?
SGS’s Customized Business Solutions (CBS)
SGS’s Customized Business Solutions (CBS) provides end-to-end audit and compliance services designed to ensure food safety, quality, and regulatory adherence across the supply chain. Whether you are a food manufacturer, supplier, QSR, or catering service, our customized audits help mitigate risks, enhance operational efficiency, and build consumer trust.
Services offered:
- 2nd Party Production Facility Audits – Ensure compliance with food safety, quality, legality, and product security standards.
- Customized Audits for Catering & QSRs – Assess hygiene and food safety standards for quick-service restaurants and catering businesses.
- Supply Chain Risk Management Audits – Evaluate supplier and vendor compliance, ensuring food safety throughout the supply chain.
- FSSAI/Regulatory Compliance Audits – Conduct mandatory third-party audits for high-risk Food Business Operators (FBOs) to meet FSSAI regulations.
- Eat Right Campus (ERC) Certification – Certify institutions and workplaces for safe, healthy, and sustainable food practices.
- Custom Checklist Development – Create tailored audit checklists to align with business-specific compliance requirements.
With CBS, businesses can stay ahead of regulatory requirements, minimize risks, and drive continuous improvement in food safety and quality.
Food safety audits and certification
Vegan certification
Customized Business Solutions (CBS)
Contact
SGS India Private Limited, 4B, Adi Shankaracharya Marg, Vikhroli (West), Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400083, India
Organic certification, Amul - (GCMMF) Limited.
SGS has awarded Organic Certification to the Whole Wheat Atta introduced by Amul, a cooperative brand managed by the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) Limited.
Trident Agrocom Exports Limited certified by SGS
We’re proud to share that Trident Agrocom Exports Limited has recently been certified for BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9, Global G.A.P, GRASP and SPRING for their grapes packing facility and associated farms in Nashik.
Our certified clients