ISO 22000
Food Safety Management Systems
The Food Safety Management System is the way and methods used by an Organisation to manage and control its food and beverage safety issues. Any organization can strategically decide to implement a Food Safety Management System 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 standard 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.
Some of the reasons why an Organization decides on the adoption
and implementation of a Food Safety Management Systems are the following:
What is ISO 22000
The Food Safety Management System is the way and methods used by an Organisation to manage and control its food and beverage safety issues. Any organization can strategically decide to implement a Food Safety Management System 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 standard 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.
Adopting a food safety management system should be a strategic decision for the business. The requirements of the international ISO 22000 standard are applicable to all organizations in the food chain, regardless of size and complexity.
Benefits
Some of the reasons why an Organisation 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 ISO 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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