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IFS Food: Selecting the Actual Certification Body and Decision Route
IFS Food evaluates food products and production processes. Its audits are performed by qualified IFS auditors working for independent accredited certification bodies approved for the programme. Use the official Food page’s certification-body search and confirm the exact legal entity and current Food approval; a consultancy listing or another IFS standard is a different role.
Use the Food certification-body route
Give the body the actual site, products, processing operations, shifts and outsourced activities before agreeing the audit scope. Ask how relevant auditor competence, review and the certification decision will be arranged. Do not treat a logo, business registration or an auditor’s general experience as proof of permission for every food activity.
Test the approval against the work actually requested
Check the programme and scope in the written offer and confirm uncertain details with the actual certification body. IFS’s standard and supporting tools do not make every company using the IFS name a Food certificate issuer. A training-provider or recognised-consultant role does not itself authorise certification.
Hypothetically, a spice processor needs Food assessment of cleaning, blending and packing, but the proposal points only to the supplier’s IFS Logistics approval for warehouse activity. Verify its actual Food approval and the auditor competence for the stated production processes. Logistics evidence does not by itself cover food manufacture. Obtain the correct written scope and decision route rather than accept a different programme because the same brand appears on both offers.
Keep preparation, audit and decision roles separate
The business implements its food-safety and quality controls. External preparation support, if used, has its own agreed role; the approved certification body audits and owns its assessment and certification decision under the programme. IFS Food audits are annual, with at least one in every three audits unannounced; confirm the site’s actual cycle rather than promise an announced visit every year.
Before asking Kayra to undertake an activity, establish the actual programme, permitted organisational role, authority and independence arrangements. This guide does not claim Kayra has Food approval or may design a client’s system. Use the official programme source for body selection and the identified body for scope, contract and decision questions.
Official sources
Choose by exact Food approval, relevant site and process scope, auditor competence and an independent decision route.
Does Logistics approval establish Food approval?
No. Verify the exact Food programme and relevant scope.
Does recognised consultancy confer certification authority?
No. The programme distinguishes consultancy and certification roles.
Is every annual audit announced?
No. At least one in every three IFS Food audits is unannounced.
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Scope and decision verification
For a request to Kayra, provide the programme, actual site and product/process scope and the proposed certifying legal entity, so request scope, authority and impartiality can be checked. The applicant implements its controls and is responsible for procedures and records for its own operations. Designing, implementing or maintaining the client’s management system is not offered; general information and general training are distinct from that work. For IFS Food certification, confirm the chosen body’s actual Food approval and scope. This page establishes no Food approval for Kayra. The programme’s certification body assesses and decides; verify the issuer, site, scope and current certificate status.