So Charles, are you saying that they are just looking for a blanket statement about food fraud and not something as in depth as I described?
Hi Kara,
Also see Post 3.
My own criticisms of BRC Food Safety Standard include that BRC8 specifically states (see 2.7) that their following material is equivalent to Codex HACCP. It is patently not, eg with respect to fraud and malicious contamination (In fact BRC's current HACCP format harkens back to the HACCP style of the ca.1980-1990s which was subsequently abandoned via Codex/NACMF et al).
In respect to Fraud itself, historically this has gradually become a semantic and interpretive nightmare for GFSI who were obliged to modify their original definition such that BRC8's definition (see the Glossary) is now no longer aligned with GFSI. BRC issued a monograph detailing their interpretation of food fraud which, as suggested by the Glossary def. does not require a specific safety-related characteristic.
JFI - these are, afaik, GFSI's original and (current) modified definitions of Food Fraud -
“Food fraud, including the subcategory of economically motivated adulteration, is of growing
concern. It is deception of consumers using food products, ingredients and packaging for
economic gain and includes substitution, unapproved enhancements, misbranding,
counterfeiting, stolen goods or others.” (GFSI, 2014)
“Food fraud: A collective term encompassing the deliberate and intentional substitution,
addition, tampering or misrepresentation of food, food ingredients or food packaging, labelling,
product information or false or misleading statements made about a product for economic gain
that could impact consumer health.” (GFSI Benchmarking Requirements, 2017)
Returning to the OP, yr investigative suggestion is fine IMO but it is probably easier to move these 2 haccp aliens to a simple extension column in the Fraud (vulnerability assessment) in section 5.4.2 (or [yet again !] in para 3.5.1.1) in (my) anticipation of a long string of NRSRs (No Reported Safety Risks). If a (unexpected) safety finding does occur, can be added to the haccp plan where required.
(above is I think equivalent to proposal in Post 2).
(Regarding the searching, not many wide-scoped, free ones left afaik.Trello maybe).