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Opportunities for SMEs
• Strong demand for local, organic and ethnic foods
• Market research and consumer trials through
producers’ markets and farmers’ markets
• Public procurement tender contracts are broken into
smaller lots
Local Sourcing and/or Quality
• Tesco sells £500M of local produce annually
• Tesco’s sales of local produce grew 40% in 2008
• Tesco’s 2011 target is £1 billion sales of local produce
SMEs – Quality & Creativity
• Speciality, quality products that are genuinely different
• Companies with good product development skills
• New wave of owner/managers with marketing and
financial skills
Offences Food Safety Act 1990
The Food Safety Act 1990 makes it an offence to sell
food for human consumption which:
• is injurious to health
• fails to comply with food safety requirements
• is not of the nature, substance or quality as demanded
by the final consumer
• is falsely described, labelled or advertised for sale
Due Diligence Defence
The due diligence defence enables someone to be acquitted of
an offence if they prove they:
• took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence
to avoid committing an offence
• burden of proof lies with the defendant
• case made on balance of probabilities and not all reasonable
doubt
• courts decide what is reasonable in each case
Due Diligence Obligations
• Detailed specification - product complies with
compositional & safety standards and GMP
• Supplier is competent to produce specified product and
operates production control systems
• Customer to verify supplier’s competence –
questionnaires or audits
• Maintain a product testing/analysis programme
EU Regulation 852/2004
• Food Hygiene Regulation effective from 1st January
2006 in the UK
• Requires procedures based on HACCP principles
• Documentation and record keeping appropriate for size
and type of business
The certification scheme to meet the
due-diligence needs of national buyers
sourcing food from local producers
Interested Parties
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Retailers
Foodservice
Food Manufacturers
Farmers
Food Standards Agency
DEFRA
Food From Britain
Food Technology Centres
Small Business Service
• NHS
• Chartered Institute of
Environmental Health
• Institute of Food science and
Technology
• IMPROVE ( Food & Drink
Sector Skills Council)
• Forum of Private Business
• University of Salford
Stakeholder vision
• should be a ‘scheme’ and not just another standard
• must ‘add value’ to small businesses
• minimal costs but within a controlled framework
• managed by a professional, competent body
Fundamentals
• product safety
• product legality
• supplier and buyer due-diligence
• appropriate to small businesses
Partners in Joint Venture
Some of the scheme supporters
Continuous Improvement
• SALSA is a stepping stone towards and not an
alternative to BRC
• Manufacturers attempting SALSA “typically” have
< 20 production staff and sales < £1M
• Customers have the final day and may insist that a
small manufacturer has BRC certification rather than
SALSA approval if producing high risk foods
SALSA Meets Due Diligence Needs
SALSA scheme standards ensures producers have:
• Pre-requisite controls on ingredients, processes,
products, personnel and premises
• HACCP system – control of physical, chemical and
microbiological hazards
• Quality management system – documented policies,
procedures, specifications and records
SALSA Scheme To Date
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Successful pilot conducted in Scotland
First certificates awarded in March 2007
Official launch of scheme at IFE 2007
As at April 2009, 1560 online registrations
Manufacturers 1073, Buyers 403, Auditors 84
• Manufacturers – 1,073 registered, 445 members, 249
first audits, 66 annual audits
SALSA Audit & Approval
• Auditor approved and registered by IFST and SALSA
trained
• Audit typically takes 0.5 days
• Advice and mentoring is integral to the audit
Auditor & Mentor Approval
• IFST Register of Professional Food Auditors & Mentors
 Demonstrates credible experience in given sectors
 Demonstrates auditor qualification and experience
• SALSA application form and declaration completed
• Professional indemnity insurance certificate required
• Annual attendance at a one-day training seminar
• Annual registration to IFST – PFAM
Supplier Approval
• SALSA operations make approval decision based on
auditor’s recommendation and a review of supplier’s
returned action plan
• if approved, certificate of is placed in directory and
report emailed to supplier
• if not approved, no certificate in directory but report
still issued – supplier re-applies for audit when ready
• supplier given further advice by SALSA operations
regarding further support and resources available
Pricing Policy from April 2008
• Supplier membership £50
• First year audit £450
• Membership includes access to web-based
information and resources and entry into SALSA
directory
• Audit fee includes cost of one audit, report and
publication of certificate in Suppliers directory
• Audit fee inclusive of local travel expenses
• Annual membership £500 (including audit fee)
SALSA Website
• designed to facilitate buyer access to local producers
• designed to be simple and easy to use
• SALSA directory of suppliers and approval status
accessible to buyers
• online membership of scheme for suppliers gives
access to valuable information, guidelines, support
and book an audit
• directory of Mentors accessible to suppliers
Benefits of SALSA
• The scheme allows small manufacturers to provide
assurance of food safety and increase their access to larger
customers
• The scheme provides rigorous approval using the scheme
standard that is appropriate and proportionate to the size of
the producer
• The scheme fulfils the requirements of the Government’s
sustainability strategy and its Public Sector Procurement
Initiative
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