Practical, experienced support for food businesses seeking stronger systems, confident teams and robust BRCGS performance.
Certification is only part of the challenge. Your food safety system needs to work every day, your people need to understand it, and your supply chain needs to give you confidence.
Global Food Consultancy provides experienced, independent support to identify weaknesses, strengthen systems and develop the capability to maintain high standards.
From pre-certification gap analysis to supplier assurance, we help food businesses turn requirements into effective, working systems.
Identify weaknesses before they become certification problems, with clear findings and practical recommendations against the relevant requirements. The BRCGS Gap Analysis can be run against any of the standards, from a full two-day pre-BRCGS audit through to a remote audit viewing your systems online and challenging them against the requirements of the specific BRCGS standard.
Internal audits are the foundation of any food safety quality management system — strong, thorough auditing is what keeps that system robust. Using an external auditor trained as a BRCGS Lead Auditor means they are never auditing their own work, and are fully qualified to challenge it properly. An experienced auditor brings a fresh pair of eyes and the knowledge of what good actually looks like — carried out with the rigour to distinguish paperwork compliance from genuinely effective food safety controls.
Working with your site to build strong, robust systems from the ground up — starting with food safety quality culture, and HACCP plans that are properly validated and verified. From there, coaching and mentoring your team so they have the confidence to handle a challenging BRCGS or customer audit. The systems belong to the site, not the consultant, so they need to be practical, workable, and owned and championed by your own people.
Supplier audits identify risks and gaps across the supply chain, and offer real brand protection for sites and their partners. Using an experienced, ISO/BRCGS Lead Auditor-trained auditor meets BRCGS requirements where a site’s own risk assessment determines that supplier audits are needed. They’re especially important where product claims are involved — gluten-free or ready-to-eat, for example — so your supplier base is fully validated.
Auditing experience across food safety, storage and distribution, agents and brokers, and gluten-free requirements.
"The value of an audit is not simply finding what is wrong. It is helping a business understand what needs to change—and why."
images/andy-headshot.jpgI started on the factory floor, not in an office — and that’s shaped how I audit ever since. Today I’m a registered BRCGS auditor carrying out subcontract audits for leading certification bodies, alongside consultancy for food businesses preparing for certification.
Whatever the country or the standard, the sites that certify well have the same things in common: clear systems, a team that understands them, and management that backs them up. That’s the perspective I bring to every audit and every piece of advice — fast, pragmatic, and grounded in what actually happens on site.
Graduated with a BSc in Consumer Product Management, then joined the QA Graduate Scheme at Grampian Country Food Group — gaining early experience across hatcheries, poultry farms, and the chicken, pork and beef divisions.
Learned the trade the hard way on the factory floor: managing people and managing conflict with production, across sites from the North East of Scotland to the South Coast of England. Roles included QA Manager, Hygiene Manager running the nightshift crew on a high-risk, fully cooked poultry site outside Edinburgh, and finally Technical Manager of a 500+ employee poultry site in Uckfield, East Sussex.
Covered the poultry, red meat, cooked meat and ready meal sectors — and this is where I was first exposed to second-party auditing, the experience that set the direction for everything since.
Took the jump into independent consultancy, providing pragmatic food safety and compliance support to SME food businesses.
Signed off as a BRCGS auditor in 2009 and have been auditing against the various BRCGS standards across the world ever since, offering clients a fast, pragmatic source of knowledge on BRCGS compliance.
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