The European Food Safety Inspection Scheme — the full form of EFSIS — is the audit scheme that inspects food-safety and quality management systems in manufacturing. EFSIS auditors assess factories against a detailed standard covering HACCP, hygiene, pest control, traceability, and management commitment; certification signals to retailers and customers that the site’s systems have been independently verified. The scheme grew with the retailer-driven audit culture of the 1990s, when supermarkets began demanding third-party assurance from suppliers, and it later merged into the BRC Global Standards family. Its significance was structural: it turned food safety from a matter of trust into a matter of audited evidence, and made third-party certification the price of supplying major retailers. EFSIS helped invent the modern food-safety audit industry.