IFS supports companies on their journey towards achieving IFS certification by providing practical guidelines and tools to optimize product safety and quality management.The following free guidelines address topics that regularly come up in audits:
IFS Guidelines for Food and Product Defense
Preventive methods for managing hazards that can cause contamination of food and products and how to raise awareness among staff about this problem.Download
IFS Guidelines for Mitigating Product Fraud
Better understand the concept of risk management as it relates to product fraud threats and how vulnerability assessments are an integral part of the risk management process.Download
IFS Guidelines for Effective Foreign Body Management
Implementation of effective and adequate management of foreign bodies and increased awareness of possible sources of contamination in order to prevent it.Download
IFS Guidelines for Food Packaging
Ensure safe food packaging in daily work routine and raise awareness among staff. Comply with the packaging requirements of the IFS Food standard.Download
IFS Guidelines for Pest Control
Gain a better understanding of the relevant IFS requirements: the options, different techniques and digital tools to develop an integrated approach to pest management.Download
The guidelines only provide ideas and suggestions for implementing the requirements and are not intended to prescribe how companies should meet them.