ISO,
with its authority in regulatory issues in general, created ISO 22000, a food
safety management system applicable by companies in the food productive chain,
from seed producers to delivery services. ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000 require that
you identify the scope of your Food Safety Management System (FSMS). Because the
prerequisite requirements in ISO 22000 are not specific to food manufacturing
the scope of the standard is more broad. It can be applied to any stage of the
supply chain. FSSC 22000 is more limited in scope. When ISO/TS 22002-1 is used,
the certification is applicable to food processors/manufactures. Food safety
scope basically provides an idea and vision about nature of your product and
the way this is going to be processed that includes all the Raw materials,
utilities, manpower, environment and other factors those are going to be
assessed to get an safe end product. You need to describe your product and its
processing with regulatory terminology of its process and product category.
ISO
22000:2018 specifies requirements for a food safety management system (FSMS) to
enable an organization that is directly or indirectly involved in the food
chain:
a)
to plan, implement, operate, maintain and update a FSMS providing products and
services that are safe, in accordance with their intended use;
b)
to demonstrate compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory food safety
requirements;
c)
to evaluate and assess mutually agreed customer food safety requirements and to
demonstrate conformity with them;
d)
to effectively communicate food safety issues to interested parties within the
food chain;
e)
to ensure that the organization conforms to its stated food safety policy;
f)
to demonstrate conformity to relevant interested parties;
g)
to seek certification or registration of its FSMS by an external organization,
or make a self-assessment or self-declaration of conformity to this document.
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