In 1998, according to the needs of the development of the national food industry, the British Retail Consortium, together with British retailers, certification bodies, royal laboratories and academic groups, jointly formulated the BRC food technical standard to evaluate the suppliers of major retailers' free brands. In a relatively short period of time, the standard was quickly adopted as an industry standard by relevant agencies in various countries, and it is still regarded as a landmark authoritative standard in the global food industry. Therefore, BRC is recognized by GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative). one of the certification standards.

Enterprises and suppliers with BRC certification can prove to their customers that their products have reached a high level in terms of safety, quality and legality. Well-known brand enterprises are widely used in the audit and evaluation of their own suppliers and production plants. At present, most large retailers in the UK and many European countries, such as Tesco, Starbucks, Asda Stores, Burger King, McDonald's, KFC, Waitrose (John Lewis), Germany Metro, Weidu clearly require the products of their suppliers in overseas markets to pass BRC certification to ensure product quality; and many members of RILA such as Walmark (Walmark), Nike (Nike), Apple ( Apple), Ikea, Best Buy, Staples, Target, JC Penney, etc. also use the BRC standard to measure the quality of their suppliers.

With the widespread use of BRC standards around the world, the BRC organization has developed and perfected them into cross-industry standards, so as to play a role in a wider field. The BRC standard currently has four major items, namely: BRC Global Standard for Food Safety--BRC Global Standard for Food Safety (the seventh edition will be launched from July 1, 2015); BRC Global Standard for Packaging and Packaging--BRC Global Standard Standard Packaging and Packaging Materials (the fifth edition will be launched in January 2016); BRC Consumer Products Standard--BRC Consumer Products Standard (currently using the third edition) and BRC Standard for Storage and Distribution--BRC Standard Warehousing and Distribution (currently using second edition).

Because the BRC standard is difficult, for small and medium-sized enterprises, if they want to pass the certification for the first time, referring to the opinions of professional consultants is the best way to save costs and ensure that they can meet the standard requirements. Usually professional pre-counseling work will be completed in about three months, and currently only foreign-funded institutions can conduct audits. Since the certificate needs to be approved by the foreign headquarters, the BRC certificate will be reviewed and approved on site, and a complete non-conformance rectification report will be submitted about one month later. get. Therefore, companies that want to obtain a BRC certificate need to consider the pre-counseling time and the time for obtaining evidence, so as to avoid the situation that the certificate cannot be provided within the time specified by the customer, which will affect the business.