Lewis Pies have been supplying quality savoury pastry products, breads and cakes across Wales and the UK for more than 80 years.
Lewis Pies have a longstanding working relationship with ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre so the company contacted us for technical support when they were working towards the new BRCGS Food Safety Standard (Issue 8) and Halal Authority Board (HAB) certification.
ZERO2FIVE’s technical team carried out extensive knowledge transfer in Food Safety Culture and other new elements of the food safety standard together with internal audits in order to verify the company’s quality management systems for compliance with the BRCGS Food Safety Standard Issue 8 and the HAB standards. We also provided practical mentoring to the team to effectively implement all actions required following the audits.
Lewis Pies successfully passed their BRCGS Food Safety Issue 8 audit in June 2019 and gained a Grade A. Two weeks later they passed their Halal Authority Board audit.
Benefits of the support
Having BRCGS Food Safety Issue 8 certification has allowed the business to maintain their existing customer base including QVC, and secure a major new retail customer.
ZERO2FIVE’s professional approach and expertise has been invaluable to our company and has helped us maintain our BRCGS and Halal certification by working alongside our technical team. This enables us as a company to secure major new contracts with wholesale and retail customers and to explore new ventures such as selling our products on QVC. We would highly recommend Project HELIX to food manufacturers who require technical assistance in obtaining certification.