The ISO 22000 family of International Standards addresses food safety management.

The consequences of unsafe food can be serious and ISO’s food safety management standards help organizations identify and control food safety hazards.

 

As many of today’s food products repeatedly cross national boundaries, International Standards are needed to ensure the safety of the global food supply chain.

• Compliance with a legal or business requirement
• Competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Identifying problem areas and opportunities for improvement
• Independent verification of system suitability & process reliability.
• Enhancing business reputation & corporate image
• Showing people your care & commitment about a subject of concern
• Greater staff awareness of and responsibility for company obligations
• Better resource usage and reduced costs of failures.
• Demonstrating “Due Diligence” to be in more legally defensible position against possible lawsuits.

You may also want to work on identifying and developing further pre-requisite programmes (PRPs) for your particular sector of the food production industry. For further advice, view our page on FSCC 22000 Foundation for Food Safety Certification.

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GMP refers to the Good Manufacturing Practice Regulations.

GMP certification is granted to manufacturing or service systems of organisations to certify that they engage with good manufacturing practices in their manufacturing or service processes, according to a Standard Code of Practice related to their business.

GMP regulations address issues including:

Record Keeping	Equipment Verification
Personnel Qualifications	Process Validation
Sanitation	Complaint Handling
Cleanliness

Global clients chose us in preference to others for a variety of reasons.

In most cases it’s because they like our fair and practical approach throughout the entire certification process and how we understand and meet each individual client’s needs. In short: the quality of our service.

Network of Overseas Strategic Partners	International Accepted Certificates
Recognised Worldwide	Web Discussion Group
Industry Experienced Audit Team	Free Newsletters & Updates
Defined & Agreed Project Timescales	Email Help Desk
Fixed Cost & Competitive Quotations

What is HACCP?

Who standardises HACCP?

What are the benefits of HACCP Certification?

What is the certification process?

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What is HACCP?

HACCP is an internationally recognized, science-based, food safety system that is used to help ensure the manufacture of safe food products.

HACCP is designed to prevent, reduce or eliminate potential biological, chemical and physical food safety hazards, including those caused by cross-contamination.

Who standardises HACCP?

HACCP methodology has been standardised internationally by the Codex Alimentarius Commission which was created by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations to develop food standards.

What are the benefits of HACCP Certification?

•  Current and predicted hazards can be identified and removed
•  Provides greater confidence in product safety
•  Remedial action can be taken during production, i.e. before serious problem occur
•  Control parameters are relatively easy to monitor, i.e. temperature, water activity, pH, texture…
•  More cost-effective than microbiological or chemical analysis
•  Operation is controlled on the premises
•  All staff can be involved with product safety
•  Reduced product loss
•  Complementary to quality management systems, i.e. ISO 9001, ISO 22000
•  Internationally recognised
•  Application of HACCP system can promote international trade by equalising food safety control systems in the world.
•  Ensures you are compliant with the law
•  Applies to whole system not selected sampling point
•  Due diligence defence in court.

What is the certification process?

The certification process is in three simple steps:

Application for certification

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Initial Certification Audit

The assessment process is based on a 2-stage approach as follows:

Stage 1 – a basis audit to check whether the organisation is in a state of readiness for the stage 2 audit and involves the following:

•  Confirm that the food safety manual conforms to the requirements of the HACCP
•  Confirm the scope of certification
•  Check legislative, work environment and Infrastructure compliance,
•  Production of a report that identifies any non-conformity or potential for non-conformity
•  Agree a corrective action plan if required
•  Production of an assessment plan and confirm a date for the stage 2 assessment visit.

Stage 2 – the purpose of this visit is to confirm that the food safety management system fully conforms to the requirements of HACCP in practice and involves the following:

•  Undertake sample audits of the processes and activities defined in the scope of assessment
•  Document how the system complies with the standard and its effectiveness
•  Report any non-conformities or observations
•  Produce an audit programme for 3 years and confirm a month and year for the first surveillance visit.

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The Foundation for Food Safety Certification was founded in 2004. The Foundation developed FSSC 22000. This development is supported by the Confederation of the FoodDrinkEurope. The scheme is recognised by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).

The Foundation also legally owns the HACCP food safety systems certification scheme. As a nonprofit organization the Foundation facilitates and owns the scheme and manages its copyright with licence agreements. The actual responsibility and authority for the content of the scheme and the delivered certification audits is the Board of Stakeholders, represented by the relevant stakeholders of the food supply chain. Furthermore the Foundation facilitates the NTWG GlobalGap.

Besides the copyright management the Foundation also:

• focuses on the international compliance and adaptability of Food Safety Standards
• focuses on the development and maintenance of certification and inspection systems for Food Safety
• promotes the international use of these Food Safety systems
• provides services to support the certification of Food Safety systems
• provides information on Food Safety issues