ISO 22000
ISO 22000 requires that you build a Food Safety Management System. This means that you will have:
- Effective Prerequisite Programs in place to ensure a clean sanitary environment
- A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Plan (HACCP) developed to identify, prevent and eliminate food safety hazards,
- Established processes to manage food safety throughout your organization - from management and business planning aspects to day to day communication and operations affecting food safety.
The ISO 22000 standard contains the specific requirements to be addressed by the Food Safety Management System. The standard addresses:
- Having an overall Food Safety Policy for the organization, developed by top management.
- Setting objectives that will drive your companies efforts to comply with this policy.
- Planning and designing a management system and documenting the system.
- Maintaining records of the performance of the system.
- Establishing a group of qualified individuals to make up a Food Safety Team.
- Defining communication procedures to ensure effective communication with important contacts outside the company (regulatory, customers, suppliers and others) and for effective internal communication.
- Having an emergency plan.
- Holding management review meetings (MRMs) to evaluate the performance of the FSMS.
- Providing adequate resources for the effective operation of the FSMS including appropriately trained and qualified personnel, sufficient infrastructure and appropriate work environment to ensure food safety.
- Following HACCP principles.
- Establishing a traceability system for identification of product.
- Establishing a corrective action system and control of nonconforming product.
- Maintaining a documented procedure for handling withdrawal of product.
- Controlling monitoring and measuring devices.
- Establishing and maintaining an internal audit program.
- Continually updating and improving the FSMS.
Read about these requirements in more detail here.
