The background of the BRC Standard 

 The industrialization of food production and processing is one of the fruits of development of human civilization, it greatly facilitated the people's lives and improve people's quality of life. However, statistics show that food safety problems with the development of food industry becomes more and more severe. Food development, production, distribution, publicity and final sales to consumers, retailers have a responsibility to the above process, to take positive action and reasonable precautions, so as to ensure the safety of food. According to the UK Food Safety Act 1990 stipulates that all sectors related to food supply, the retailer has the responsibility to take all reasonable precautions and exercise due diligence to avoid the development, manufacturing, distribution, advertising or sale of food any deviation from the process. In 1998, the British Retail Consortium (British Retail Consortium, / BRC) to prepare and introduce the "for retailers own brand food suppliers BRC technical standards and procedures" (BRC Food Technical Standard). This standard was originally used for the supply of retailer branded food standards, but in recent years, the BRC Food Technical Standard is widely applied to other sectors of the food industry, such as: food service industry and the production of food ingredients. Comprehensive requirements for the safety of food, food packaging and consumer goods since 1998 the British Retail Consortium (BRC) has promulgated the Law of the BRC Global Standard UK sales. BRC series of standards has become a major UK supermarkets and retail products, the manufacturer's safety standards, 98 percent of its standard request has been accepted by the global retailers. The fifth version of the BRC Global Food Standard was officially born in 2008