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Raw fish production is 'Bottom of the Class' in food safety standards, says BRC

Raw fish as a category is bottom of the class in meeting food safety standards globally, according to a British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standards report. Most of the sites which fell into the raw fish category were based in China, Vietnam and the UK.

April 30, 2015

Raw fish as a category is bottom of the class in meeting food safety standards globally, according to a British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standards report.

The findings are based on the Consortium’s annual audits of some 17,113 food production sites in 120 countries around the world.
Only 68.7% of the 1,263 fish sites it audited achieved an Agrade rating, the joint lowest result among all 18 categories, and 10% lower than the global allcategory average.
Most of the sites which fell into the raw fish category were based in China, Vietnam and the UK.

[Source:Anne Bruce, Food Quality News. Read article]

[Food Safety – A Global View 2015 is available to download as a PDF file from the Knowledge Centre of the BRC Global Standards website here - Editor].