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Specification Preparation

Accurate, complete specifications that win and retain business

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Spec gaps are easy to miss until they cause problems. Approved specs can become outdated the moment upstream changes occur; whether that is recipe update, legislation changes or a new supplier or product, MNGP can help.

Specification Preparation Services

What we do

Our team can take responsibility for the full specification process or work alongside your internal staff to provide targeted expertise wherever it’s needed. Ensuring you have specifications that are accurate, complete and delivered on time.

New specification development

Beyond recipe and nutritional data, a full specification captures storage instructions, shelf life, origin, and packaging-level details like pack format and barcode data, built from confirmed supplier documentation, not assumed values.

Every spec is structured to your customer’s or scheme’s required format, with a final technical sign-off against the source data before issue.

Specification completion, correction and approval

We often find specs that were accurate at approval but never reissued after a supplier substitution or process change, so we check against evidence of current production, not the last approved version.

Where a spec carries a claim like allergen-free or reduced sugar, we verify it’s substantiated, flag likely repeat errors across own-label ranges, and document what was wrong so it doesn’t recur.

Ongoing specification management

Review cycles are set by risk: stable, low-complexity products default to three years, higher-risk categories to annual review, running alongside trigger-based review on any event that could invalidate the spec, like a substitution, formulation change, or legislative amendment.

We help establish the change-control mechanism that flags these triggers at source, so revision happens at the point of change, not retrospectively.

FAQs

Questions? We have the answers

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Don't wait for an audit to find the gap in your specs