LRQA is a trading name of LRQA Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office in Birmingham. For food, beverage and hospitality businesses it offers certification to FSSC 22000, BRCGS Food Safety, IFS Food, ISO 22000 and HACCP, along with GLOBALG.A.P. Aquaculture, GSA BAP, MSC and ASC certification and the Farm First Assurance Scheme.
Its audit services include second-party audit programmes, retail and hospitality audits and SMETA ethical trade audits, and it runs CQI and IRCA certified training. LRQA says it has more than 40 years of sector expertise, audits 35,000 food and beverage sites each year and supports more than 5,500 food and beverage brands across 160 countries. Clients named in its case studies include McDonald’s, which it says it has partnered with for over 25 years, beginning with supplier audits.