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id: KB-CS-018
url: https://app.codecontract.io/help/food-and-beverage/food-manufacturing-and-packaging
idioma: en
categoria: sector-alimentacion
subcategoria: distribucion
audiencia: usuario
nivel: intermedio
actualizado: 2026-08-13
tambienEn: [es]
relacionados: [KB-CS-007, KB-NO-002]
citadoPor: [KB-CS-019, KB-CS-025]
---

# Food manufacturing and packaging

_Raw materials, packaging and customer audits in one case file._

**Responde a:** raw material supplier documentation · food safety technical data sheets · ifs brc audit documentation · food contact materials

Food manufacturing carries three documentary demands usually handled separately that are really one case file: food safety, packaging, and whatever the customer asks for when they are a large chain.

## The three modules, by block

| Block | Module | What moves |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Supplier approval | Trackline | Technical sheets, health certificates, allergen declarations |
| Food contact materials | Trackline | Packaging declaration of conformity, per reference |
| Quality agreements with suppliers | Consigne | Specifications signed, not merely agreed by email |
| Process and control records | SmartCheck | Certifying the periodic register, with a third-party date |

> [!IMPORTANT]
> The packaging declaration of conformity is held by your supplier and the duty to hold it is usually yours. It is the document most asked for in customer audits and the one most often missing, because nobody requested it when the packaging was approved.

## Frameworks cited

Food hygiene and self-control systems, food traceability, consumer information and allergens, food contact materials, and the private certification schemes retailers require. What applies to your activity and to what extent is confirmed by your adviser or certification body.

> [!WARNING]
> Health certificates and approvals expire. A supplier who was approved when you bought and stopped being so three months later is exactly what surfaces in a recall, with dates attached.

> [!NOTE]
> If a large customer audits you annually, build their questionnaire as a process. What they ask changes little, and the second time costs an afternoon instead of a week.

**Can it be queried by batch?**

If the batch is linked to the supplier's case, yes, and that is what narrows a recall.

**What about my suppliers' suppliers?**

Requested inside your direct supplier's case, as further documentation.

**Does it help with an unannounced audit?**

That is where it shows most: you show it, you do not search for it.

## Ejemplos

**A packer is audited by a customer and asked for conformity declarations on twelve packaging references.**

- Finds four; the other eight were never requested
- Requests them from packaging suppliers and marks them with expiry

→ The next audit is answered by showing, and the declarations renew themselves annually.

**A client audit arrives with two weeks' notice.**

- Checks what is missing per supplier before it lands

→ The gaps close with time to spare.

**Packaging documentation sits apart from raw materials.**

- Gathers everything in the product's file

→ There is one picture of the product.

**An ingredient changes and the labels stay the same.**

- Reviews the affected references when the change arrives

→ The label keeps telling the truth.

**A client asks for the traceability of a specific batch.**

- Checks that batch's file

→ You answer per batch rather than per catalogue.

**Every audit is prepared from scratch.**

- Keeps the file current through the year

→ The second audit costs a fraction.