The Complete Guide of ISO 22000 Certification
ISO 22000 describes requirements for a food safety management system and sets out what requirements an organization must meet to demonstrate it can control food safety hazards.
Unsafe food can have severe health consequences, so organizations in the food supply chain must take steps to ensure their processes and products are safe. Today, many food products across national borders, highlighting the need for a worldwide standard for food safety management. ISO 22000 meets this need by providing guidelines organizations can follow to help distinguish and control risks related to food safety.
What Is ISO 22000 Certification?
ISO 22000:2018, which recently got revised, is a food safety standard for Businesses in the global food chain. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed the standard ISO 22000:2018, Food safety management systems – Requirements for any organization in the food chain.
ISO 22000 describes requirements for a food safety management system and sets out what requirements an organization must meet to demonstrate it can control food safety hazards. ISO 22000 industries can get certified to the standard.
ISO 22000 covers organizations across the whole food chain, from the farm to the table. It is designed to ensure fair competition and provide for communication within and between organizations along the food chain.
The standard incorporates and complements the main elements of ISO 9001, the standard for quality management systems, as well as hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP), a preventive approach to food safety.
The standard provides a framework for organizations to develop, implement, monitor and continually improve a food safety management system, or FSMS, within the context of their overall business risks. To comply with the standard, businesses must meet all applicable food safety related to statutory and regulatory requirements.
Organizations that want to create an FSMS that is more focused, coherent and integrated than what the law requires can benefit from ISO 22000. It helps organizations with aspects of their operations such as food safety, hazard controls, their supply chain, HACCP, their business strategy and food traceability.
What Is a Food Safety Management System?
Although the primary concern regarding food safety is the presence of food safety hazards at the point of consumption, these hazards can occur at any point along the food chain. Because of this, it's crucial to have adequate controls in place throughout the food chain and all the organizations involved must collaborate to ensure safety.
The primary elements of an FSMS, as described in ISO 22000, are:
Interactive communication across the organization
System management that includes documentation
Prerequisite programs, which ensure a clean, sanitary environment
HACCP principles, which help identify, prevent and remove food safety hazards
The standard also covers other principles, which are part of all ISO management system standards. These principles are:
ü Customer focus
ü Leadership
ü Engagement of people
ü Process approach
ü Improvement
ü Evidence-based decision-making
ü Relationship management
The Benefits of ISO 22000 Certification
ü Improved health and safety
ü Improved customer satisfaction
ü Help meeting regulatory requirements
ü Help meeting other standards and guidelines
ü Enhanced transparency
ü Improved response to risks
ü Reduced investigation time
The Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle
ISO 22000 plan do check act
An essential aspect of ISO management standards is continuous improvement. Organizations can use the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) cycle as described in ISO 22000 to drive this improvement. The PDCA model can apply to the overall FSMS and each of its elements. The steps of the PDCA approach are:
ü Plan — Establish the objectives of the FSMS and its processes, provide the required resources and identify and address opportunities and risks
ü Do — Implement the processes you have planned
ü Check — Monitor the processes and their results, analyze the data gathered from this monitoring and report the results
ü Act — Implement measures to improve the performance of the processes
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From the initial inception of 2007, it has grown in many ways in the certification business. Its directors have strong conviction in delivering quality services to its customers in a transparent and efficient manner.
Having a strong presence in Certification has complemented IAS in delivering training programs on ISO Lead Auditor, Internal Auditor training and Awareness Training, etc.,
How IAS Can Help
Working with an accredited certification body like IAS can help you achieve certification and improve your organization. At IAS, we are passionate about providing excellent value and service for our clients and helping them improve their products and processes.
ISO 22000 Certification
ü Certification audits — we provide certification audits that help you improve your organization and meet the demands of the standards you're seeking certification to.
ü Gap analysis — we can perform a gap analysis to help you determine the amount of time and effort achieving ISO 22000 certification will require and help you plan your FSMS.
ü Transition guidance — we offer resources and assessments that can assist your organization in transitioning from ISO 22000:2005 to ISO 22000:2018.
ü Consultancy information — while we do not provide consultancy services, we do have a database of consultants you can use to find one to work with.
ü Implementation Guide — we recently published our ISO 22000 Implementation Guide if you need help with getting started or want to check you're on the right track. You can download it here.
For more information about ISO 22000 Certification for Foods Industries and the role, we can play in your efforts to achieve certification to it, feel free to contact us. To get started with the certification process, you can also request a quote.
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