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Suppliers completing specifications.

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Addressing outstanding specification questions involves providing responses to unresolved queries or concerns related to product specifications. This ensures that product information is accurate, complete, and aligns with quality and safety standards in the food industry.

1. Answering Outstanding Specification Questions
2. Outstanding Building Your Recipe Questions
3. Further Reading

1. Answering Outstanding Specification Questions

1. Under Specifications, select "To Complete Outstanding Specifications Click Here".
2. With documents that have specification questions, select the Answer Outstanding Questions button   .

Tip: You can use either option, Change Answers or Answer Outstanding Questions, to respond to any pending questions.

3. A new window will appear with the details of the outstanding questions.

4. Click Next.
5. There will be a series of questions to answer.
6. If you'd like to add a comment, once you've entered your text, be sure to click Comment.

Note: Once you have clicked the Comment box your comment cannot be deleted or edited.

7. Once you've finished answering the questions, click Next & Save.

8. There may be more than one page of questions to answer, so you can choose from the three options above. 

Important: When you have answered every question and selected N/A to questions that do not apply to your site will automatically take you to an Approve and Submit page.

2. Outstanding Building Your Recipe Questions

1. Under Specifications, select "To Complete Outstanding Specifications Click Here".
2. With documents that have recipe questions, select the Answer Outstanding Questions button   .
3. A window will appear with the details of the questionnaire.

4. It will detail if you have any outstanding questions in this section, along with the list of all the question sections below it.
5. Click Build Your Recipe to edit.

6. Any outstanding cells will appear in red.

Important: Use the scroll bar to navigate the whole length of the recipe table.

7. If you move your mouse cursor over any red-highlighted text in the allergen declaration statement, a tooltip will appear to provide an explanation for why that section requires modification.

8. Once you've finished, click Save.

Note: For information on the using a recipe table, see Using the Raw Material Recipe Table.

3. Further Reading

• Changing Specification Answers
• Viewing Previously Submitted Specifications