Advice and consultancy
Make it easier on yourself. Outsource all or part of your food safety quality assurance to us.
Advice and consultancy on food safety
You would rather spend your time on your core tasks than studying food safety legislation and regulations – that’s something we can take care of. Ensure you are taking full advantage of the opportunities available in terms of reducing waste, extending the shelf life of your products, and making registrations more efficient by talking with our expert consultants.
Our team of consultants will go over your options with you and let you know how you can translate the law into your business.
What can our advice do for your business?
We are here for all companies in the chain. Thinking of engaging Eurofins Bureau de Wit for advice and consultancy on food safety? Take a look at a few of the benefits:
- You will spend less time on mandatory registrations
- You can demonstrate a longer shelf life for your products
- You will waste less food
- You will know when fewer samples are needed
- You will not face any surprises during official inspections (e.g. by the NVWA)
In short: you will have greater certainty that you comply with the hygiene code, GFSI requirements, or other legal obligations. You will also become well educated on how to follow these guidelines more easily. This will save you time, money, and hassle.
Advice on the hygiene code for companies
As a company, you want to comply with the guidelines set out in the hygiene code. But what exactly does that entail? Our advisors are experts on which rules apply to your company and how you can comply with them in a feasible way.
We check your current situation and identify steps you can take to comply with the rules effectively and efficiently. This allows you to maintain food safety in a way that works for you.
Curious about what we can do for you? Let's have a conversation.
Personal advice on compliance with the hygiene code
Our advice on hygiene code compliance is always tailored to you. To start with, our advisors use a baseline measurement to check the extent to which your company currently complies with the hygiene code. What is already going well and in which areas are adjustments needed?
We then advise you on the next steps to take to comply with the rules even better and more effectively. Among other things, we guide you on:
- Registering more efficiently
- Complying with allergen management rules
- Managing your stock better
- Reducing food waste
This saves you time, money, and food waste. We can also help you obtain the Food Safety Quality Mark.
Advice for start-up entrepreneurs
Anyone starting a new business will have many questions. Which rules do you have to comply with? What is the priority? Do the premises you have in mind meet the requirements? Does your supplier offer the right quality?
You are not alone. Our advisors can answer these and many other questions. This way, you can be sure that you are making the right choices when it comes to food safety.
Are you familiar with our HACCP app?
Did you know that we also offer a comprehensive digital solution for food safety? With our HACCP app, you can easily keep track of all your records digitally. This means you no longer need paper records and can see at a glance which tasks are still pending.
Your staff can also use this app to stay informed on the status of tasks and see which are outstanding.
Advice for production companies
Appointing Quality Manager internally is not a requirement: we can take on that task for you. Outsource your food safety quality assurance, either fully or partially, to Eurofins Bureau de Wit. With a combined total of more than 100 years of experience, our consultants can offer excellent advice to manufacturing companies. This includes:
Monitoring legislation and regulations
Setting up, implementing, and maintaining a certifiable quality system
Drawing up sampling schedules
Preparing audits (certification, NVWA, or supplier audits)
Shelf-life substantiation and challenge testing
Developing training and product development projects
Your own food safety consultant
Do you have your own production company but no Quality Manager? Make things easier for yourself by outsourcing all or part of your food safety quality assurance to us.
Our consultants are jacks of all trades and even offer highly specialised support. Call on them as your HACCP quality manager on a project basis, interim basis, or even full-time.
Our consultants come from our sister company, Eurofins Food Safety Solutions. Together, they have more than 100 years of experience, so you can rely on a wealth of expertise and an expert eye on your processes.
Label check: be sure your label complies
Consumers must be able to count on reliable and complete nutritional information on pre-packaged products. Strict rules therefore apply to ensure labelling correctness.
Under European Regulation 1169/2011, companies in the food industry are required to include a nutrition declaration and the best-before date on every pre-packaged product.
Do you want to be sure that your food labels comply with the requirementsall laws and regulations? We can check. Where necessary, we will also advise you on adjustments.
We carry out our label services for both Dutch and international markets, for food, non-food products, and even animal feed.
During a label check, we address key questions such as:
- Is all required information on the label?
- Are the claims legally compliant?
- If not, what is needed to make that claim?
- Does the product label meet any additional retailer requirements?
- Are the nutritional values correct?
- Is the Nutri-Score accurate?
We can also check labels on food products that you export abroad, thanks to our international network of Eurofins companies, with expertise in legislation across the world. Labels in other languages are no problem for us either.
What can we do for you?
Are you curious about what we can do for you in terms of advice and consultancy? Contact us and we can tell you more, without obligation.