An independent food integrity review for 2 Sisters Food Group

Food safety management systems Supply chain resilience

Across 17 manufacturing sites and approximately 13,500 colleagues worldwide, 2 Sisters Food Group are the biggest producer of specialist chicken, with a strong track record in ready meals, pizza, and pies.

Opportunity

Kevin Barker is the Group Produce SME and Integrity Lead for 2 Sisters Food Group. As Integrity Lead, the main focus has been to build and maintain a robust process for food integrity across the business, ensuring confidence in the raw materials and supply chains used.

In 2019, 2 Sisters Food Group initiated a review of their approach to ensuring food integrity, which led to a refreshed approach being introduced in June 2020.

Following this, Kevin and 2 Sisters Food Group sought the support of Richard Leathers (Campden BRI Global Quality Lead) to independently review their new, improved process.

Approach

Richard and the wider Campden BRI Global Safety & Quality Team provided an independent review in May 2021. The 2 Sisters Food Group team also conducted a shop floor review of the understanding of and engagement with the business’s food integrity system.

Kevin and the 2 Sisters Food Group team implemented Richard’s recommendations, followed by a second independent review in May 2022.

As part of this project, Kevin and his team also reviewed and refreshed their horizon scanning process and introduced an internal integrity forum for the communication of horizon scanning insights across the business.

Results

The output of this excellent work by 2 Sisters Food Group is a robust process for ensuring food integrity, for which the team have the peace of mind that it has been independently reviewed by our food safety and quality experts.

Throughout the review and development of the 2SFG approach to food integrity, it was recognised that there would be significant benefit in engaging with an independent organisation with expertise in food integrity to review our approach.

The review carried out by Richard Leathers and the team at Campden BRI confirmed that the approach taken was at the leading edge within the food industry, whilst also providing further recommendations on how the approach could be further enhanced. The benefits gained from working with Campden BRI in this collaborative way, has helped to support the ongoing development of the approach taken by our business.

– Kevin Barker, Group Produce SME & Integrity Lead, 2 Sisters Food Group

2 Sisters Food Group also have a comprehensive horizon scanning system in place, as well as the means to take meaningful action from the insights.

Building upon the earlier work of the project this has enabled the team to ‘deep dive’ into individual supply chains – interrogating factors such as mass balance, whistleblowing systems, raw material control and waste management.

The Campden BRI difference

For all areas of the supply chain from field to shop shelf, we can help you ensure compliance, quality, safety, legality, and authenticity.

Renowned as an independent expert in the food and drink industry, we have more than 250 scientists and technical experts collaborating on a wide range of projects every day. We can help you to implement, validate and verify effective food safety management systems to protect against food fraud. We also help businesses to identify emerging risks and trends through horizon scanning, offer a comprehensive range of analytical testing, and provide support with devising and adapting management systems and monitoring plans based on the changing risk landscape.

We have over 100 years of expertise are uniquely placed to offer consultancy and guidance in all aspects of food safety and quality – from initial supply chain risk assessments through to final product testing, and every step between. We also provide support with crisis management, including turnkey solutions of root cause analysis, problem solving, and addressing product recalls and process failures.