FIBC Quality & Document Checklist

For each requested document, record its title, issuer, reference number, issue date, scope and the product or activity it identifies. If an expiry date or revision is relevant to that document, include it in your review. Ask the supplier to explain the connection between the document and the bag being quoted, especially where a model code or drawing number differs from the website title.

Check whether the evidence concerns raw material, a finished product design, an individual production batch or an organizational process. A statement about one of those subjects should not automatically be presented as proof of the others. Your review notes should make the distinction visible to colleagues in purchasing, operations and quality roles.

Where authenticity or current status matters, request the information needed to verify it with the issuing organization through an appropriate channel. Keep the original document with your assessment rather than relying only on a screenshot or a forwarded summary. If a document is unavailable, record that fact as an open requirement instead of filling the gap with a claim from another product.

The catalog names flour, peanuts, grain, potatoes and other ingredients in several applications. Such names indicate the context of an enquiry. They do not establish food-contact suitability, a hygiene certification or compliance with every destination requirement. Identify the intended contact conditions and the documentation requested by the organization purchasing or using the packaging.

For food-related enquiries, describe the material being packed, the components that will contact it and any required evidence concerning those components. A liner may change the contact arrangement, but its presence alone does not complete the assessment. The FIBCA Food Safety Guide is an external industry resource that encourages assessment for the particular FIBC application rather than reliance on a single broad label.

Chemical compatibility requires its own information about the actual contents. A generic chemical-packing description is not dangerous-goods approval. Likewise, an electrostatic designation does not establish suitability for every filling environment. Share the information required by your responsible technical team and ask for the specific supporting documents. This guide does not assign an electrostatic class or approve any bag for a flammable, explosive or hazardous-material operation.

Online product data can contain an ambiguous size, a general construction description or two entries that do not agree. Preserve the original information in your request and identify the question explicitly. For instance, one current tubular product contains 95*95*100 and 95*95*110 size references. The correct response is to request confirmed dimensions with units, not to choose one silently.

Other records contain side-seam and cross-corner loop descriptions together, or both offset-printing and no-printing wording. These are practical approval questions. Ask for the final attachment drawing or finish specification, then make sure the quotation and order refer to the agreed result. A clear written resolution is more useful than a broad assurance that the bag will be standard.

For traceability, ask what product, drawing or lot identifiers will appear in the documentation supplied for your order. Agree the records your team expects to receive and how a later question will be linked to the relevant shipment. This is a request for an agreed documentation arrangement, not a claim that a particular internal traceability system has already been verified.