YORVALE, the York ice cream manufacturer, has passed a British Retail Consortium food safety audit with flying colours.
Acaster Malbis-based Yorvale is one of only three per cent of all food manufacturing sites in the UK to achieve a Grade A zero non-conformities certification against the BRC global standard for food safety.
Yorvale director Ian Buxton said: “Although this is the fifth year that we have achieved a Grade A (up to ten minor non conformities are allowed) against the standard, this time we have done it with zero non-conformities; that is no errors. It’s a remarkable achievement and one of which the whole team is justifiably proud.”
It is the first audit since an extension doubled the size of the factory last May and Yorvale became the first ice cream manufacturer in the North of England to gain the prestigious Red Tractor accreditation.
It also won new business from Waitrose supermarket on the back of its Farm Entrepreneur Of The Year award in 2009.
The assessments are a suite of four industry-leading technical standards that specify requirements to be met by an organisation to enable the production, packaging, storage and distribution of safe food and consumer products.
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