How ISO 22000 Helps Businesses in Food Chain?
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has introduced a Food Safety Management System Certification: ISO 22000. ISO has prepared this system to apply to food safety, incorporating the widely used and proven HACCP principles and good manufacturing principles as well as hygiene practices.
In the past few years, it has been noticed that there has been a continuous increase in consumer demand for safe food. This has ultimately led to the development of several food safety standards around the world. Thus, it has become vital for international standards for food safety, which ISO aims to meet with ISO 22000. It includes requirement to carry out hazard analysis, haccp plan and preparation of food safety manual.
Food Safety Management Systems – ISO 22000 is an international standard and is required by every organization in the food chain. ISO 22000 defines the needs of a food safety management system that encompasses all organizations in the food chain from farm to fork, including catering and packaging companies.
Generally, the system combines the recognized key elements to ensure food safety along the food chain including the interactive communication, system management, control of food safety hazards through pre-requisite programmes and HACCP plans and continual improvement and updating of the management system.
ISO 22000 defines certain necessities for a food safety management system where an organization in the food chain needs to show its ability to manage and control food safety hazards in order to ensure that food is safe at the time of human consumption.
Certifying your food management system against the requirements of ISO 22000 will bring the following benefits to your organization:
• An auditable standard which provides a framework for third-party certification
• Complies with the Codex HACCP principles
• A truly global international standard
• Provides communication of HACCP concepts internationally
• Improved documentation
• All control measures subjected to hazard analysis as a scientific approach
• Provides potential for harmonization of national standards
• Covers the majority of the requirements of the current retailer food safety standards
• Auditable standard with clear requirements
• Suitable for regulators
• Resource optimization internally and along the food chain
• Better planning, less post process verification
• Systematic management of prerequisite programmes
• System approach, rather than product approach
• Increased due diligence
• A systematic and proactive approach to identification of food safety hazards and development and implementation of control measures
• Follow up of god manufacturing practices with the help of implementation of hygienic practices as well as implementation of the best sanitation standard operating procedures
Eventually, it is essential for any organization in food chain to get ISO 22000 certification. Global Manager Group – an ISO consultancy and training company- offers ISO 22000 Documentation, ISO 22000 Certification Training, ISO 22000 Standards Quality Manuals and ISO 22000 Procedure.
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