For the eighth consecutive year, MGP achieved the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) highest score of Grade AA following completion of a recent food and beverage safety audit at the company’s protein and starch facility in Atchison, Kan. Just prior to that, the company’s Lawrenceburg, Ind., distillery repeated its Grade AA rating at the conclusion of the fifth BRC audit at that facility. The Atchison distillery BRC audit is currently scheduled for late this summer, marking the sixth such annual audit at this facility, which also has consistently earned the BRC’s highest rating.
The BRC standards allow for a Grade AA if five or fewer non-conformances are cited out of 256 total audit items. BRC food and beverage safety audits are approved by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), which benchmarks standards for third-party audits.
“Consecutive Grade AA BRC ratings are certainly accomplishments in which all of our employees can take much pride,” said David Whitmer, corporate director of quality and alcohol R&D and innovation. “These successful audits support our reputation for supplying high quality products to our customers while providing added assurance from an internationally recognized independent source that we are committed to food and beverage safety.”