Our Food Safety programme includes food safety audits (external and internal) at stores, manufacturing plants and suppliers. It also includes product and environmental testing, food fraud testing, product recalls, regulatory inspection management and food safety training and monitoring programmes.
A Global Walmart Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point audit has also been rolled out in our stores and Group-owned manufacturing sites.
To improve safety standards at our distribution centres (DCs) they are all audited against a Global Food Safety Standards. Audits by an independent third party against the highest global and local food safety standards revealed a significant improvement in our overall food safety results in 2020.
We work with our Private Label suppliers to implement the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standards and have seen good progress with overall compliance. Product testing was conducted by a SANAS-accredited laboratory at both product and store level to ensure compliance with food safety standards.
