Paragon - Accreditations

Paragon has been accredited with three responsible packaging certifications; ISO 14OO1:2004 environmental management certification, FSC chain of custody and PEFC chain of custody certification for sustainable sourcing of paper and board products for all of its seven UK manufacturing sites.

The ISO 9000 families are among ISO's most widely known standards ever. ISO 9000 are implemented by some 760 900 organizations in 154 countries. ISO 9000 has become an international reference for quality management requirements in business-to-business dealings.

The ISO 9000 family is primarily concerned with "quality management". This means what the organization does to fulfil:

The customer's quality requirements, and applicable regulatory requirements, while aiming to enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve continual improvement of its performance in pursuit of these objectives.

For further details visit www.iso.ch

BRC / IOP category B food contact standard for food packaging and other packaging materials.

In 1998 the British Retail Consortium, responding to industry needs, developed and introduced the BRC Food Technical Standard to be used to evaluate manufacturers of retailers own brand food products.

In a short space of time, this Standard became invaluable to other organisations across the sector. It was and still is regarded as the benchmark for best practice in the food industry. This and its use outside the UK has seen it evolve into a Global Standard used not just to assess retailer suppliers, but as a framework upon which many companies have based their supplier assessment programmes and manufacture of some branded products.

For further details visit www.brc.org.uk

FSC has offices in more than 46 countries. It provides standard setting, trademark assurance and accreditation services for companies and organizations interested in responsible forestry.

Products carrying the FSC label are independently certified to assure consumers that they come from forests that are managed to meet the social, economic and ecological needs of present and future generations.

For further details visit http://www.fsc.org

The PEFC Council (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification schemes) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, founded in 1999 which promotes sustainably managed forests through independent third party certification. The PEFC provides an assurance mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper products that they are promoting the sustainable management of forests.

For further details visit http://www.pefc.org

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