East GB Ltd - Food Training Specialists
East GB Ltd are Food training and Food Systems experts based from offices in Nottingham and Burnley.
Using eLearning and face-to-face training courses, we help food and drink businesses from across the UK and mainland Europe.
We are an accredited centre with The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health and provide qualifications in Food Safety level 2, Food Safety level 3, and Advanced Food Safety Level 4.
East GB background and experience 
Principal directors Marcus Kilvington (right) and Nick Eastwood (left) have been involved in the complete range of food production cycle and food chain, from the field right through to the table.
"Importantly for this Safer Food System, we have extensive experience in food businesses and food manufacturing, where HACCP based Food Safety Management Systems have been in continuous use for 25 years or more".
Worldwide experience that forms The Safer Food System...
Background info by Marcus Kilvington 22/06/08
We've been involved in launch of major new food products with production and supply chains that have spanned the globe. For example the production and launch of food and drink products that supply J. Sainsbury and Tesco in the UK. The inspection and negotiation process would start with the supplier of raw ingredients. Sugar could come from Mauritius or South America, tea and spices from India, veg & fruit from Europe and USA.
We would obtain supply contracts and negotiate price. Inspect their manufacturing plants along with a technical team to ensure that they complied with all UK regulations to pass BRC Accreditation. (British Retail Consortium).
As you can imagine, the Retailers are extremely strict on supply and we made sure that any issues were resolved prior to their own audits.
Our companies trading relationship with these customers relied on supplying “safe food” and maintaining our reputation as a credible supplier.
Within the UK, a new product would include discussion and observation of the cooking/manufacturing process to again ensure that the product would pass the Retailers Audits.
We were always involved in the management team of new factory or line builds.
Our knowledge had to be good enough to enable us to accompany the customer’s technical teams on factory and supplier audits. You needed to possess the relevant knowledge to be able to present and answer questions they would invariably ask.
We can supply contact names within the technical teams at Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Waitrose, Co-op, Somerfield, Morrisons if you need any external verification.
Within Foodservice we also worked very closely with our customer’s development teams to ensure that the product they wanted could be replicated and geared up to factory production methods.
Other experience has included cooking methods such as heat treatment methods, sterilisation, UHT, pasteurisation, mechanically recovered meat etc.
Courses on CIP methods.
Baby food manufacture. This production has to be the most advanced, safe and controlled production methods I have ever witnessed.
We also have experience of meeting suppliers that would never meet the standards and that allows us the balance to be able to explain the issues and difficulties that can be experienced in a commercial world.
Marcus Kilvington 22/06/08
The Safer Food System is your Food Safety Management System incl HACCP principles - a complete elearning course and downloadable FSMS in one.
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