Assistance for Different Companies Within the Food Chain
ISO 22000:2005 the world Standard for food safety management systems is now receiving more worldwide appreciation. ISO 22000, is supported by ISO / TS 22004:2005, Food safety management systems direction on the appliance of ISO 22000:2005, which gives counseling for all types of organization in the food supply chain. These range from feed suppliers, first producers, food manufacturers, storage and transport operators, retail and food service outlets, producers of hardware, packaging material, cleaning agents, ingredients and additives.
The direction is for small and large setups wishing to apply an ISO 22000 food safety management system and improve understanding, communication and coordination in the food supply chain. It provides assistance on the principal clauses of the standard and on how to take a process approach to implementing a food safety management system. For an company to function efficiently it has to identify and manage countless linked activities. An activity thatis managed to enable the change of inputs into outputs is considered as a process. Frequently the output from one process immediately forms the input to the next. This process approach provides control over the mixture and interaction of the individual processes in the system. ISO 22000 was designed to work in harmony with ISO 9001:2000 for quality management systems including the tenet of continual improvement. This enables an company to merge its own food safety management system with similar management systems and establish a food safety management system that complies with ISO 22000.
ISO 22000 requirements for a food safety management system includes a need to effect the Codex hazard analysis and Critical Control Point ( HACCP ) system for food hygiene. ISO 22000 is also now complimented by Technical specification TS ISO 22002:2009 which adds detail to the necessities of ISO 22000 Clause 7.2 precondition programmes. Prerequisite programmes make the basic food safety conditions and activities that are important to keep a hygienic workplace through the food chain thatis suitable for the production, handling and supply of safe end products and safe food for human consumption. TS ISO 22002 complements ISO 22000 by providing a collection of eighteen prerequisite programmes to be used by food manufacturers
ISO 22000 and TS ISO 22002 are both included in the FSSC 22000 food safety management system certification scheme which has now got conditional acceptance from GFSI. FSSC 22000 is specific for food manufacturers. ISO 22000 is a helpful to standard for food safety management systems needs based primarily on the HACCP principles but as the FSSC 22000 scheme includes TS ISO 22002 it has detailed necessities for requirement programmes. The FSSC food safety management system documentation scheme was released on 15 May 2009 and has been provisionally authorized against the requirements explained in the GFSI steering Document Version 5.
The global Food Safety Initiative ( GFSI ), which is an influential group of 650 retailer, producer and food service firms, as well as service suppliers associated with the food supply chain from over seventy different nations. GFSI maintains a baselining process for food safety management system certification scheme requirements. The global Food Safety Initiative recognizes five producing schemes BRC worldwide Standard Version five, Dutch HACCP ( Option B ), FSSC 22000 ( Conditional Recognition ), Global Red beef Standard Version 3, world Food Standard Version 5 and SQF 2000 Level two.



