ISO For Food Safety
Control of food safety is very critical because failures in food supply can cause human suffering, death, poor reputation, violations, poor nutrition, poor quality products and decreased profits. ISO 22000 series is a truly global option for ensuring food safety. The purpose of ISO 22000 is to provide a practical approach to ensure the reduction and elimination of food safety risks as a means to protect consumers. ISO 22000 follows a long tradition of preventive actions, identified and regulated by quality and food safety professionals. It requires an organization to include any applicable food safety related statutory & regulatory requirements into its food safety management system.
The organization generally requires to:
• Identify, evaluate, control hazards that reasonably expected to occur
• Communicate safety issue of products throughout the food chain
• Communicate food safety management system throughout the organization
• Evaluate periodically and update the system to reflect the organization’s activities and recent information on hazards
Organizations should consider adoption of ISO 22000 for three principle reasons:
• Benefits in the marketplace - Customers receive confidence through the demonstrated implementation and ongoing maintenance of the system. As organizations along the supply chain adopt ISO 22000 or become subject to customer controls along the food supply chain, the market achieves assurance that there are no weak links in the food chain.
• Benefits to the organization producing the food - The organization has confidence that it has done the right things to provide control over activities that affect food safety. The system is well-planned, monitored, audited (internally and externally), and measured, and feedback is provided in a timely manner to decision makers.
• ISO 22000 goes well beyond regulatory requirements - ISO 22000 includes--but goes beyond--existing HACCP programs. HACCP programs are excellent and work very well to prevent food safety problems, but they are not supported by an overarching systematic approach that includes many of the components extracted from ISO 9001.
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