What People Are Saying About SALSA
- “We are working hard with the SALSA scheme to ensure it delivers an effective means for small producers to demonstrate due diligence.”
- Sainsbury's
- "3663 First for Foodservice are working with the SALSA scheme, with the intention of making it part of our due diligence supplier approval system. The scheme will help us to continue to support local producers, as part of our dedicated commitment to provide customers with local products"
- 3663
- “ASDA are endorsing the SALSA scheme as it provides the re-assurance that locally sourced branded products are safe and legal and are to the quality expected by our customers.”
- ASDA
- “This scheme will substantially help small manufactures of food to sell directly to supermarkets. SALSA will also provide assurance that such companies are meeting safe and legal standards and provide assistance to these businesses to continually improve. It will encourage national organisations and businesses to produce food from small producers and manufacturers with confidence.”
- DEFRA
- “The Food Standards Agency is committed to promoting awareness of food safety. That is why we continue to support SALSA, which will improve food safety standards in small and local food businesses.”
- FSA
- “The SALSA scheme offers a framework for small suppliers to obtain safe and legal products by the approach of both mentoring and auditing. The SALSA scheme assists suppliers in securing advice and support, alongside an auditable standard and therefore gives assurance of product compliance. Waitrose endorse these principles and will look to integrate the SALSA scheme into our own systems in the future.”
- Waitrose
- “Elior actively support the SALSA scheme for small to medium sized suppliers across all product categories”
- Elior
- "SALSA at the bakery level makes all employees constantly think how they should operate in a food manufacturing situation and at a sales level gives confidence in the products."
- Lindsay Keir
Wooleys of Arran - "The SALSA process was relatively painless and made a lot simpler with the guidance of our SALSA mentor. The time spent was less than we spent each year trying to justify our worthiness to customers in the form of HACCP's, Quality Control Manuals etc."
- Gordon Kinniburgh
Island Cheese Company, Isle of Arran - "It was bizarre to discover that an audit can be an enjoyable and informative, positive process"
- Kate Kent
Battle Bake House Ltd
- "Tesco supports the 'SALSA' (Safe and Local Supplier Approval) scheme for small suppliers. However, at present, it is not a requirement for Tesco small suppliers to be 'SALSA' certified.
- Tesco
- Note - Tesco's current policy is to audit and approve small suppliers themselves but they are supportive of the scheme and the benefits it brings to them in preparing suppliers for their own approval visits.
