FSSC 22000
Food Safety Management Scheme
The Food Safety Management Scheme FSSC 22000 is the way and methods used by an Organization to manage and control its food and beverage safety issues. Any organization can strategically decide to implement a Food Safety Management Scheme in order to provide safe foods and their related products and services across the whole food chain, utilizing a risk assessment methodology, setting food safety objectives and generally determining the methodology for managing, monitoring and improving all food safety aspects.
Some of the reasons why an Organization decides on the adoption
and implementation of a Food Safety Management Scheme are the following:
The Food Safety Management Scheme FSSC 22000 is the way and methods used by an Organization to manage and control its food and beverage safety issues. Any organization can strategically decide to implement a Food Safety Management Scheme in order to provide safe foods and their related products and services across the whole food chain, utilizing a risk assessment methodology, setting food safety objectives and generally determining the methodology for managing, monitoring and improving all food safety aspects. The scheme provides a process approach towards developing and improving an effective food safety management system and a methodology for determining food hazards and the way to control them and minimize their negative consequence and the likelihood of their occurrence.
The Food Safety System Certification 22000 (FSSC 22000) offers a complete certification Scheme for the auditing and certification of Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS). It also offers certification for combined FSMS and Quality Management Systems (FSSC 22000-Quality). It has been developed through extensive consultation with many global stakeholders and can be used in the whole food supply chain. Organizations that are ISO 22000 certified, only need to take small steps to implement the additional criteria and gain FSSC 22000 certification.
Benefits
Some of the reasons why an Organization decides on the adoption and implementation of a Food Safety Management System are the following:
- Improvement of the utilization of resources on a global level
- Greater focus on achieving the requirements and expectations of customers and relevant authorities
- Increasing customer trust
- Minimizing wastage
- Creation of confidence to the customers that the desired food safety level is achieved and maintained
- Creation of opportunities to expand into new markets
- Creation of opportunities for competition in tenders / orders where required
- Upgrading of the image and name of the organization / differentiation from competition
- Acquisition of an important marketing tool
- A tool for identifying major needs for staff training / staff skills improvement
- Greater involvement of staff in improvements
- It facilitates the change of culture in the organization
Interested Organizations
The requirements of FSSC 22000 are applicable to any organization in the food chain, including and not limited to feed producers, animal food producers, harvesters of wild plants and animals, farmers, producers of ingredients, food manufacturers, retailers, organization providing food and catering services, cleaning services, transportation, storage and distribution, packaging materials etc.
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