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BRC Packaging Materials is a widely recognised certification standard for manufacturers and suppliers of packaging used in food, consumer products, and other regulated sectors.
Achieving BRC Packaging Materials certification shows that your organisation has strong controls in place for product safety, quality, hygiene, and legal compliance. It helps businesses meet customer expectations, support supplier approval, and build trust across the supply chain.
Our experienced team provides practical BRC Packaging support tailored to your operations. Whether you need a gap analysis, help improving systems, audit preparation, or ongoing compliance guidance, we help make the process clear, structured, and manageable.
BRC Packaging Materials certification is relevant to organisations involved in the manufacture, processing, printing, conversion, or supply of packaging materials and packaging components.
BRC Packaging Materials certification forms part of a wider product safety and quality framework designed to help businesses manage risk, improve consistency, and demonstrate compliance. A successful system requires documented procedures, effective implementation, strong site controls, and regular review.
Our consultants support organisations through every stage of BRC Packaging preparation, helping strengthen systems, close gaps, and improve audit readiness.
BRC Packaging Materials covers the systems, controls, and site standards needed to manage packaging safety, quality, hygiene, and legal compliance effectively.
- Product safety and quality management systems
- Risk assessments and hazard controls
- Site standards, housekeeping, and maintenance
- Process control and operational consistency
- Traceability, specifications, and change control
- Staff training, hygiene, and competency
- Internal audits, corrective actions, and continual improvement
BRC Packaging helps businesses meet customer requirements while strengthening internal product safety and quality systems. It provides confidence to buyers and supports a more controlled, risk-based approach to operations.
- Supports supplier approval for major customers and brands
- Demonstrates commitment to packaging safety and quality
- Helps reduce risk of defects, complaints, and product issues
- Improves traceability and process control
- Builds trust across the supply chain
To achieve BRC Packaging Materials certification, organisations must implement and maintain effective controls across product safety, hygiene, quality, and site operations.
- Documented management systems and procedures
- Risk-based controls for product safety and quality
- Effective site standards and hygiene arrangements
- Product specifications, traceability, and control systems
- Staff competence, training, and awareness
- Internal verification, monitoring, and corrective action processes
BRC Packaging compliance is verified through structured audits that assess whether systems are documented, implemented, and effective in practice.
- Gap analysis and pre-assessment reviews
- Internal audits and compliance checks
- Review of procedures, records, and specifications
- Site inspections and operational observations
- Audit preparation and corrective action support
Certification is not the end of the process. Ongoing review, internal auditing, and system maintenance are essential to keep standards strong and support future audits. A typical ongoing compliance approach includes:
- Maintaining documented procedures and records
- Reviewing non-conformities and corrective actions
- Updating controls when products, materials, or processes change
- Delivering refresher training and staff support
- Preparing for surveillance or recertification audits
BRC Packaging Materials certification is a major step for packaging businesses that want to strengthen systems, meet customer expectations, and grow with confidence. A well-prepared approach reduces stress, improves audit outcomes, and supports stronger day-to-day control.
At Compliancy Group, we combine practical compliance knowledge with hands-on support, helping organisations prepare for BRC Packaging certification, improve systems, and maintain a stronger compliance position.
We understand the practical demands of packaging certification and the expectations of customers, brands, and certification bodies. Our team helps identify gaps, strengthen controls, and improve audit readiness.
We combine certification support with real operational understanding, helping businesses apply BRC Packaging requirements in a way that works in practice, not just on paper.
We help businesses improve procedures, records, and supporting documents so systems are easier to manage, review, and present during audit.
From initial gap analysis through to audit preparation and ongoing improvement, we provide clear, practical support at every stage.
Our advice is tailored to your products, materials, and site operations. We focus on practical solutions that strengthen compliance and support long-term success.
Continued involvement beyond certification to maintain standards, prepare for surveillance audits and strengthen long-term governance maturity.
Our specialist team are here to help you through every stage of the certification process.
The BRC Packaging Materials standard sets requirements for businesses that manufacture packaging to ensure product safety, quality, hygiene, and legal compliance. It is widely used for packaging supplied into food and consumer product supply chains.
Primary packaging is the packaging that comes into direct contact with the product or forms the unit sold to the end user, such as bottles, lids, trays, wrappers, labels, or containers.
BRC originally stood for British Retail Consortium. The standard is now known as BRC and is recognised globally across packaging and food supply chains.
No. ISO 9001 is a general quality management standard used across many industries, while BRC Packaging Materials is specifically focused on packaging safety, hygiene, quality, and supplier approval requirements.
BRC standards are updated periodically, so the latest issue depends on the specific standard and current release. Businesses should always prepare against the version required by their certification body and customers.
AA is generally recognised as the highest audit grade, followed by lower grades depending on audit findings and non-conformities.
BRC is now known as BRC, which stands for Brand Reputation through Compliance Global Standards.
