ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management Systems(FSMS)
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About ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management Systems(FSMS)
🟢 ➤ISO 22000 is an internationally recognized standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that specifies the requirements for a Food Safety Management System (FSMS).
🔵 ➤It is designed for organizations involved in any part of the food chain, from farm to fork, and aims to ensure that food is safe for consumption. ISO 22000 integrates key elements of food safety such as interactive communication, system management, prerequisite programs (PRPs), and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles.
🟠 ➤The standard helps organizations identify and control food safety hazards, improve transparency and traceability, and meet both regulatory and customer requirements.
🟡 ➤By implementing ISO 22000, businesses demonstrate their commitment to food safety, enhance customer confidence, and ensure consistency in delivering safe food products globally.
Main Highlights
The ISO 22000 standard and HACCP outlines and combines generalized criteria’s which are recognized to be the key elements to ensure food safety management, including:
- Internal and external interactive communication;
- System management at all levels within the organization from the staff to the customers and third-parties involved.
- Overall control of food safety hazards through prerequisite programs with the combined HACCP plans for successful implementations.
- Continual improvement programs are being implemented and maintained for the food safety management system throughout the organization.
- It integrates and reinforces the hazard analysis and critical control point system which creates a very effective food safety management system.
Brief about the ISO standard
Adapted from the ISO standard: ISO 22000:2018
→ISO 22000:2018 is an international food safety standard certification, accomplished and can be achieved through the ISO certifying bodies worldwide.
→Its primary focus is to achieve requirements for food safety control systems.
→ISO 22000 certification can be used by all the types of organizations which are involved in the Food supply chain.
→It helps and continuously improves the business, quality and food safety system control and risk analysis
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A preventative approach to food safety management which can help the organization to identify the processes improvements and reduce the cost of end product testing.
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Is complementary to Quality Management Systems such as ISO 9000 and aligns with the ISO 14001 – Environmental Management Systems.
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It provides evidence of due diligence & reduces the likelihood of product recall & adverse publicity which can cost save on any future incidents and complaints.
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It shall increase the customer satisfaction which will demonstrate commitment to customer satisfaction. The standard is aimed on reducing the customer’s dissatisfaction as well.
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Facilitates better understanding of food packaging safety issues throughout the organization that could be implemented at all levels.
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Improves staff performance through the promotion of team spirit & improves staff morale and motivation through a safer food processes and cleaner working environment.
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A clear, auditable, global standard providing a framework to bring together all parts of your Food Safety Management System (FSMS) to provide a better quality to the consumers.
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Tests compliances with the statutory and regulatory requirements are well maintained and monitored to avoid any future non-conformances.
Certification Details
BAS is a versatile ISO certification body, with various industrial expertise and strong exposures in the field of Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental, Service Management and Information Security Management. We provide reliable services in the UK, Middle East, India and Other countries.
We at BAS with our veteran assessors provide you with certification which provides value for your management system. Many clients around the world have greatly benefited through our exemplary service.
The following are the steps in this phase we do as part of certification
Contract signature
BAS representative sends out an application which is a questionnaire to the organization which is the applicant for the Certification.
Once BAS receives the filled in application, the BAS representative sends an official quote to the applicant for approval.
Pre-audit (optional):
Gap analysis and diagnosis of your systems current position against requirements of the standard - A pre-certification audit is a high level evaluation indicating where your company currently stands in compliance with specific standards before the main certification audit.
Audit Stage 1- Initial Visit: to verify the establishment and implementation of the basic structure of your Management System
BAS will carry out a Document review Assessment of the client�s Management System according to the requirements of Standard in order to establish to what extent the System addresses the requirements of the standard and if a subsequent Initial Assessment for Accredited Certificate is likely to result in successful certification at an early stage, by which usually companies take the necessary corrective/preventive actions as appropriate and prior to the Initial Assessment. The Pre-audit should not be considered as a Consultancy Service
Audit Stage 2 - Certification audit (certificate issued after successful certification audit)
The principal purpose of the Initial Assessment is to audit the Company�s Management Systems for compliance with the the standard. Please note that Initial Assessment is the obligatory service. In this phase if there are any opportunities for improvements identified BAS auditors would report them in the interest of the organization.
Surveillance audits to follow the continual improvement
It is also an obligatory service; BAS will perform Surveillance Visit approximately after every year i.e. a total of 3 Surveillance Visits will be performed every year during the 3 years validation period of the Certificate. Such routine surveillance Visits are performed to ensure the continuous compliance of your Management System to the requirements of Standards.
Re-certification after 3 years through full audit or continual assessment.
What we do?
- BAS can assist your organization to acquire any relevant ISO certifications in UAE which is well-known internationally. It will generate additional business opportunities, exhibit the organizations compliance and commitment to the best-practices in any industries in order to be more competitive in today�s market.
- We at BAS with our veteran assessors provide you with certification which provides value for your management system. Many clients around the world have greatly benefited through our exemplary service.
- When you choose BAS as your certification partner you stand to gain monetarily in your business by our straight forward assessment. The overall aim of certification is to give confidence to all parties that a management system fulfills specified requirements. The value of certification is the degree of public confidence and trust that is established by an Impartial and competent assessment by a third party.
- With BAS, you will have the capability to deliver on the promises you make � this helps you to enhance your reputation, creates confidence in your capabilities, substantiates claims and differentiates your organization;
- With BAS, Obtains the full tangible benefits and value of your management systems � this helps you to link assessment system benefits to financial performance or improvements in effectiveness and efficiency that help drive your business forward in measurable and verifiable ways; and develops your capability to better manage a range of non-financial risks.
- As an integral part of this process, BAS will evaluate the relevance of the quality objectives against the analysis of stakeholder expectations and strategic goals of the company. We will assess the capability of the management system in controlling the defined processes. We will assess the effectiveness of the management decision making in respect to this data and, on the basis of this assessment, we will help senior management identify any changes required to support continual improvement.
- Providing more opportunities for improvements than just performing a compliance audit against the standards requirements.
- Understand the local culture and working patterns of the clients will facilitate better communication and understanding between BAS and the clients.
- BAS possesses resources who have the knowledge and skills of multiple standards such as ISO 20000, ISO 27001, SKEA for eg., in Abu Dhabi for Business Excellence programs etc.,. This greatly helps the clients to have better inputs as the standards can be applied in an integrated way and the auditors can provide a holistic feedback.
- BAS has offices around the world and the auditors have access to the knowledge from all around the global parts which will be helpful to the clients as they can have a better understanding and more practical suggestions from BAS auditors.
- BAS location advantage within the Emirates on the following: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Al Ain, Sharja, Ajman, Ras Al Kaimah and Fujairah (We have successfully completed many and different projects locally and also internationally).
- BAS strongly promotes and implements the facilitations on the relevant Management System not only for the sake of certification but to really make a difference in the processes and procedures that will be implemented throughout any organization.
- BAS consist of some project members which are also EFQM International Assessors this can add value to the assignment as Abu Dhabi government is highly recommending Organizational Excellence program across Abu Dhabi Emirate (and UAE).