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| | | | Exova launches new Technical Support Programme for Smaller Food Suppliers | | | | | | 17 September 2008
Exova has launched a new modular based management and technical support programme designed specifically for smaller food manufacturers who want to take a product to a major retailer.
‘Retail Ready’ takes manufacturers through product legality such as composition and labelling or production control, ensuring that they do not stumble at one of the first technical barriers and so ensuring a more professional approach when dealing with major retailers. The programme has been designed in a modular format so that manufacturers can choose those elements that best suit their needs and existing resources.
Exova will provide the technical assistance to enable suppliers to develop and manufacture safe and legal product whilst scaling up to production, meeting the minimum legal and technical requirements for retail supply and meeting critical paths for product launch. Suppliers can select from the following modules:
Composition: We will verify recipes to make sure that they are legal and in line with potential ingredients strategies of the retailers e.g. food additives, colours and QUID, by recipe check. Verification by analysis is available at additional cost eg for claims, fats or vitamins.
Specification: We will provide support through the NPD process to provide a generic specification template, completion guidance notes and validation of a maximum of 3 supplier completed specifications with one amendment per specification.
Labelling/Pack copy: We can ensure that pack copy generated from the specification meets legal compliance and retailer guidance, including one amendment per product.
Other guidance is available on Factory & Process Control, helping the supplier decide which level of factory and process control they need, whether a safe and legal audit, full BRC Certification , or somewhere in between. Whichever, we will provide advice on Good Manufacturing Practice for producing Safe & Legal Product and the practical implementation of HACCP systems and ensure that standards are met for the retailer audit and/or Third Party certification to BRC/IFS/SALSA.
Due Diligence Testing: To ensure that appropriate QA testing regimes are implemented through in-house or external accredited laboratories to meet the technical specifications demanded by the retailer and to ensure that nutritional information for pack copy is appropriately generated and validated.
Retail Specification input service. When the product is listed by a retailer who requires an electronic specification system we can input the specification data from information provided by the supplier.
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