What is ISO 22000?
Food Safety Management System that can be applied to organization which is into food production and export. caring the label of ISO 22000 certified allows company to showcase that they have strong system to protect the food and also boost customer’s confidence in the product. This is a key requirement, since the customers push for a safe food and producers expect that the raw materials supplied by the suppliers should be safe. IT hub Brazil is attracting more and more human resource and companies to foot print in the land and do business, to satisfy the food desire they start walking into producers of safe food. ISO certification shall help the food business agents to attract more customers.
What are the ISO 22000 requirements?
ISO 22000 pushes the producers and suppliers to design and document a strong Food safety management system. The standard contains the specific requirements to the implemented, followed, monitored and continually improve.
Requirements are:
- Having holistic food safety policy drafted by the top management for the organization.
- Set objectives that will push human resource to stay comply with the policy.
- Form a strong food safety management team and appoint an Leader for the same
- Frame up a strong communication procedure for both internal and external parties.
- Providing competent resources, infrastructure and right environment for the effective operation of the FSMS
- Having a strong HACCP and emergency plan
- Framing up the HACCP plan as per the HACCP principles.
- Defining a traceability system for identification of defect product.
- Checking out if the system is in compliance with the FSMS.
- Performing internal audit to check out the compliance thing, take a corrective action on the non conformity of product.
Prerequisite programs – ISO 22000
Prerequisite programs (PRPs)
Prerequisite programs are general programs and practices induced into the system to have a clean to do items in producing safe food products
ISO 22000 expects that the organization must push in the programs to control the likelihood of introducing hazards through the work environment. it also helps organization to identify the areas to be focused and trained, for example pest control programs , personnel hygiene etc.
Operational Prerequisite programs (OPRPs)
ISO 22000 expects that the organization must push in the programs to control the likelihood of introducing hazards through the work environment. it also helps organization to identify the areas to be focused and trained.
ISO 22000 procedures for food safety management system can help to get ISO 22000 certification audit faster for Food industries.
Following is the list of mandatory ISO 22000 procedures helped in food certification.
- Procedure For emergency preparedness and response
- Procedure for Product Withdrawal
- Procedure For Pre-requisite Program
- Procedure For HACCP Plan
- Procedure For Hazard Identification Procedure
- Procedure For Control Of Non-Conforming Products
- Procedure For Internal Quality And Food Safety Audit
- Procedure For Control Of Monitoring And Measuring Devices
- Procedure For Management Review
- Procedure For Document And Data Control
- Procedure For Control Of Quality Records
- Procedure For Corrective action.
Advantages of attracting ISO 9001 in Brazil
1. Attract Tender /Contract :
The primary reason to attract ISO 22000 in any location and by businesses is to maximize the business opportunity by attracting tenders/contracts.
2. Improvement of customer satisfaction
One of the key elements in this international standard is to improve customer satisfaction. By improving the satisfaction level customer retention is at higher side, such customers help directly or indirectly in generating more business.
3. Increase your credibility and image
By getting your business ISO certified, credibility and image of your brand runs up sharp in the international and domestic market. When a company is looking for supplier or service provider, it is often a requirement to have a clean system in order to consider.
4. Improvement of employee satisfaction
The staff is highly satisfied and pumped up once there are clean roles, responsibility and accountability, a well defined show of how the roles of the staff create a impact on quality and overall success. This international standard will help organization frame up a structure that helps staffs morale increase.
5. Increased business
Research has proven that ISO certified companies have shown improvements in the area of finance. The ISO certified image attracts more business in both domestic and international market.
6. Process Consistency
A well documented system helps in minimizing process related errors. Even a minor change in the process has to be documented and implemented in best possible pattern.
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