Food Manufacturer Receives Global Food Safety Certification

New Orleans, LA /PRNewswire/ - Reily Foods Company has received the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Food Safety Initiative Certification across its manufacturing facilities. The BRC is an internationally recognized accreditation body for the audit and certification of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). This certification recognizes that Reily Foods' manufacturing facilities are committed to achieving worldwide best practices in the food and beverage manufacturing industry.

"This certification shows that our manufacturing operations are rated among the highest in food safety. We are extremely proud of this achievement, and we will continue to strive to maintain the highest safe food manufacturing standards," said Reily Foods' New Orleans Plant Manager Louis Diaz.

Well known packaged foods brands are produced at the company's manufacturing facilities in New Orleans, LA and Knoxville, TN including Luzianne Tea and Coffee, French Market Coffee, Blue Plate Mayonnaise, and Swans Down Cake Flour, as well as a variety of private label products.

"We want consumers to know we are putting the best, safest products on the market," said Duane Montague, Plant Manager of the Knoxville facility. "The entire company has whole-heartedly embraced the culture required to be among the safest in food manufacturing practices."

The New Orleans facility received an A rating in July 2011. The Knoxville facility received its certification in September 2010.

About Reily Foods Company
Established in 1902, Reily Foods Company is a family-owned business based in New Orleans, one of the world's great culinary centers. Reily Foods manufactures and markets a wide range of quality food products sold in grocery stores and restaurants throughout the United States including Luzianne Tea, French Market Coffee, Blue Plate Mayonnaise, JFG Coffee, JFG Mayonnaise, Swans Down Cake Flour, Wick Fowler's 2-Alarm and Carroll Shelby's Chili Kits, La Martinique Salad Dressings, Tiger Sauce, and No Pudge Fat Free Brownie mixes.

About British Retail Consortium
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) is the lead trade association representing the whole range of retailers, from the large multiples and department stores through to independents, selling a wide selection of products through centre of town, out of town, rural and virtual stores. The BRC is the authoritative voice of retail, recognized for its powerful campaigning and influence within government and as a provider of excellent retail information.

About Global Food Safety Initiative
The Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) is a collaboration between some of the world's leading food safety experts from retailer, manufacturer and food service companies, as well as service providers associated with the food supply chain. It is coordinated by The Consumer Goods Forum, the only independent global network for consumer goods retailers and manufacturers worldwide. The GFSI vision is 'once certified, accepted everywhere.'

SOURCE Reily Foods Company