ISO 22000 requires that you build a Food
Safety Management System. This means that you will have a documented system in
place and fully implemented throughout your facility that includes:
Effective Prerequisite Programs in place to
ensure a clean sanitary environment
A Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Plan
developed to identify, prevent and eliminate food safety hazards,
Established documented food safety management
system 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
requires food safety management system processes including:
Having an overall Food Safety Policy for your
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 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.
Implementing Prerequisite Programs.
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 and internal
audit program.
Continually updating and improving the FSMS.
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