Showing posts with label food safety management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food safety management. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Work Guide to Document for Food Safety Management System

Every Food manufacturing company ought to have a Food Safety Management System that adheres to food safety global standards. A Food Safety Team ought to be organized by the highest Management to create certain that every one FSMS system is in situ, food safety documented and enforced.

As the team leader of our Food Safety team, it's my task to food safety documents and takes into account all aspects within the Food Safety Management Systems involving food manufacturing training, sanitation standard operating procedures, hazard analysis and critical points (HACCP).

A hierarchy of food safety documentations ought to be followed to come back up with an organized system that may be clearly distributed, understood and enforced to any or all levels of the corporate.

The hierarchy of documentation is as follows:


The ISO 22000 Manual for Food organization is that the revised pointers on current good manufacturing practices in producing, Packing, Repacking or Holding of Food.

The Food Safety Policies - These statutory requirements ought to be translated to your own policies that are applicable to your company.

These policies can't be implements unless a transparent and mandatory Food Safety System Procedures set is established that involves the management live, objectives, observation procedures, corrective actions, records/documentations, and verification.

The HACCP Plan is simply stepwise work directions that required to be done. The process owner can create the elaborated directions and therefore the accountable officer to assess the effectively of the same process.

And lastly, to assure that staff is following the enforced documentations, programs are done that involve observation, checklists, verification forms and process audits. There ought to be an everyday assessment of the present system and, as required and recommended; revisions on the system ought to be done as applicable.


Saturday, 12 January 2013

Overview of ISO22000 Requirements for Food Safety Management System

The ISO body has published the new system as Food safety management system which is ISO 22000: 2005 standard. ISO 22000 requirements for food safety management system, which cover all FDA requirements through various clauses of ISO 22000. Food safety management system is related to the presence of food borne hazards in food at the point of consumption. As the introduction of food safety hazards can occur at any stage of the food chain, adequate control throughout the food chain is essential. Thus, food safety is ensured through the combined efforts of all personnel. 
All the progressive units in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangkok, Sri Lanka and Gulf Countries, which are in the food manufacturing and food export market today, have adopted some system of obtaining the safe food product. Experience of other industries in India and outside India shows that extensive efforts on the part of each and every person in the organisation are needed for upgrading the existing system to meet the requirements of ISO: 22000.
ISO22000 are a generic document and it does not specify "how" to do, but only states "what" to do. As per the standard, the Food Safety Management System should be documented and be demonstrable in the manner consistent with the requirements of ISO 22000: 2005 models. The total demonstration in the Food safety management System consists of following.
  • Interactive communication
  • System management
  • Prerequisite programmes
  • HACCP principle
The general requirements of demonstration in the Food safety management System consists of following:
  • Food Safety Manual
  • Procedures to follow
  • Exhibits / HACCP Plan / Hazard analysis
  • Work Instruction/Operating Procedure Manual
  • Forms, Records
  • Internal audit checklists to check Food Safety and HACCP system
The amount of documentation should support and efficient quality assurance system without creating a paper bureaucracy. The details for documenting above four tiers of documents are described in this paper.