Framework overlap

Does ISO 9001:2015 cover BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 9?

You hold ISO 9001:2015 and have been told to do BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 9. Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

21% of BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 9 you already have

ISO 9001:2015 already covers about 21% of BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 9, leaving 31 of 39 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 8 New work 31

No control in ISO 9001:2015 maps directly to one in BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety Issue 9. Everything counted as covered is covered because both map to the same third standard, which is what a crosswalk is, but it is an inference rather than a lookup.

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in ISO 9001:2015 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

2.1
Internal Data Flow Security
2.2
Security Updates
2.3
System Hardening
2.4
Utilize Automated Software Inventory Tools
3.2
Establish and Maintain a Data Inventory
3.4
Enforce Data Retention
4.5
Implement and Manage a Firewall on End-User Devices
4.6
Securely Manage Enterprise Assets and Software
5.4
Establishing Audit Programme
BRCGS-1.1
Senior Management Commitment
BRCGS-1.2
Food Safety Culture Plan
BRCGS-2.1
HACCP Team and Prerequisite Programmes
BRCGS-2.3
Critical Control Points
BRCGS-3.1
Food Safety and Quality Manual
BRCGS-3.11
Product Recall and Withdrawal
BRCGS-3.4
Internal Audits
BRCGS-3.5
Supplier Approval and Performance Monitoring
BRCGS-4.1
Site Standards and Layout
BRCGS-4.10
Foreign Body Detection
BRCGS-4.11
Housekeeping and Hygiene
BRCGS-4.13
Pest Management
BRCGS-4.3
Security and Food Defence
BRCGS-4.9
Chemical and Physical Product Contamination Control
BRCGS-5.1
Product Design and Development
BRCGS-5.3
Allergen Management
BRCGS-5.4
Product Authenticity and Claims
BRCGS-5.5
Product Packaging
BRCGS-6.1
Control of Operations
BRCGS-6.3
Calibration and Control of Measuring Devices
BRCGS-7.1
Training
BRCGS-7.2
Personal Hygiene
Show the 8 you already have
1.1
SWIFT Environment Protection
1.2
Operating System Privileged Account Control
1.3
Virtualisation Platform Protection
3.1
Physical Security
3.3
Configure Data Access Control Lists
3.5
Securely Dispose of Data
BRCGS-2.2
Hazard Analysis
BRCGS-3.9
Traceability

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in ISO 9001:2015 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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