Food Safety
Food can get contaminated from a variety of sources. Food Safety Management System is a helpful tool to ensure safe practices are followed within a food establishment. It allows organizations to understand what quality assurance and preventive food safety measures should be applied within their industry in order to control food safety hazards and make sure that food is safe for consumption.
Globally recognized standards relating to food safety include ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, BRCGS, GMP, HACCP, etc.
ISO 22000:2018 (Food Safety Management System) is a series of standards that sets out the requirements an organization must meet so as to demonstrate it can control food safety hazards. This voluntary standard harmonizes the requirements for food safety management on a global level and is intended to address aspects of food safety concerns. Regardless of size and nature, it is applicable to any industry related in one way or other to food safety.
Who should implement FSMS ?
- Primary food producers (farming businesses)
- Feed and animal food producers
- Food manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers
- Food transport and storage operators
- Hotels, restaurants, catering businesses and food outlets
- Other food related organizations such as producers of food handling equipment, packaging materials, additives and ingredients, cleaning agents, etc.
Benefits of FSMS Implementation
- Proactively mitigates food safety hazards in a product or process
- Reduces the risk of food-borne diseases and ensures safety of consumers
- Reduces costs and increases efficiency and profitability
- Facilitates in trading – national and international
- Increases transparency throughout the food chain
- Provides assurance to stakeholders
- Manages risk on complex liabilities issues
- Ensures compliance to regulatory and customer requirements
- Addresses risk associated with the objectives
- Promotes a positive image of organization