This guideline is intended to help sites understand whether the products they produce will require handling in a high-risk, high-care or ambient high-care area, and how the specific clauses for these areas should be interpreted. It does not represent an extension of the Standard, new or additional clauses, but is a further explanation of the requirements along with some examples, showing how the requirements of the Standard could be implemented.

For the first time Food Safety Issue 8 collates all the requirements for high-risk, high-care and ambient high-care products into a single section (section 8). This provides greater clarity on the requirements for products that need to be handled in these areas.

Use of BRCGS intellectual property

Information on how you can use BRCGS Standards, guidance and published content can be found here. You can also find a list of answers to common questions on how BRCGS content can be used here.