Food
and health safety is indubitably one of the fundamental concerns of every
modern consumer. ISO 22000:2018 was
released on June 19 2018, and is an international standard. As it follows the
same High Level Structure (HLS) structure as other widely applied ISO
standards, such as ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, it will be easier to integrate with
other management systems. If you are
already applying ISO 22000:2005, you will recognize most of the requirements in
ISO 22000:2018. However, there are quite a few changes from ISO 22000:2005 that
you must prepare for in order to transition and comply with ISO 22000:2018. At
present, ISO 22000:2018 is still in the FDIS (final draft international
standard) stage, expected to be released in final version in June 2018. This
overview is based on the FDIS, and we expect that released version will not
have significant deviations from the final draft.
Key
changes in ISO 22000:2018, These are some of the key changes to consider:
1) Changes
due to the adoption of HLS
·
Business Context
and interested parties: Chapter 4.1, external and internal
issues, introduces new clauses for systematic determination and monitoring of
the business context, and Chapter 4.2, needs and expectations of interested
parties, introduces demands to identify and understand factors that can
(potentially) affect the ability of Management System to reach the intended
results.
·
Strengthened
emphasis on leadership and management commitment: Chapter 5.1 now
includes new demands to actively engage and take accountability for the
effectiveness of the management system.
·
Risk
management: - Chapter 6.1 now requires companies to
determine, consider and, where necessary, take action to address any risks that
may impact (either positively or negatively) the ability of the management system
to deliver its intended results.
·
Strengthened focus
on objectives as drivers for improvements: these changes can be
found in Chapter 6.2, and performance evaluation chapter 9.1.
·
Extended
requirements related to communications: Chapter 7.4 is now
more prescriptive in respect to the “mechanics†of communication, including
determination of what, when and how to communicate.
·
Less strict
requirements for a food safety manual: – the change is
introduced in chapter 7.5. It is still required to have documented information.
Documented information shall be controlled to ensure it is adequately protected
(ref. 7.5.3). The explicit requirement to have a documented procedure has been
removed.
2) Other changes
that are specific to ISO 22000 and food safety management
·
The PDCA cycle: the
standard clarifies the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, by having two separate cycles
in the standard working together: one covering the management system and the
other, covering the principles of HACCP.
·
The scope now
specifically includes animal food: food for animals not
producing food for human consumption. Feed is intended to be fed to food
producing animals.
·
Some important
changes in the definitions: ‘Harm’ is replaced by ‘adverse
health effect’ to ensure consistency with definition of food safety hazard. The
use of ‘assurance’ highlights the relationship between the consumer and the
food product, based on the assurance of food safety.
·
Communicating the
food safety policy - Chapter 5.2.2: Explicitly requires
the management to facilitate understanding of the food safety policies by
employees.
·
Food Safety
Management System Objectives: Establishing objectives for the
food safety management system is further specified in Chapter 6.2.1 and includes
items as e.g. ‘consistent with customer requirements’, ‘monitored’ and
‘verified’.
·
Control of
externally-provided processes, products or services - Chapter 7.1.6:This
clause introduces the need to control the suppliers of products, processes and
services (including outsourced processes) and to ensure adequate communication
of relevant requirements, to meet the food safety management system
requirements.
·
In addition, there are several key changes in
the ISO 22000:2018 compared to ISO 22000:2005 related to the HACCP systematics.
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