Guide to the quality system for grocery wholesale distributors
17 June 2011
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to the grocery wholesale distribution sector on the minimum contents that are required in a Quality Management System.
A quality management system consists of written procedures and forms which are approved and controlled by the company. These procedures and forms define how processes and activities in the daily operation of the business are performed and recorded. They ensure that each activity is performed to a standard prescribed method.
The IMB has produced a set of written procedures and associated record forms. These procedures may be incorporated into a company’s quality system.
These may be used as an example of the content such procedures and record forms should contain. The procedures describe the course of action to be followed for each activity in a generalised manner. They must be amended to reflect the actual specific processes and steps undertaken at each premises in order to be incorporated into a company’s quality system.
The procedures and forms are based on a hard-copy quality system. They may need to be amended if the quality system is electronic.
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Guide to the quality system for grocery wholesale distributors