HACCP Certification Consultancy

Benefits of implementing ISO HACCP / ISO 22000 FSMS

• A preventative approach to food safety

• Can help identify process improvements & reduced customer complaints

• Reduces the need for, and the cost of end product testing

• Is complementary to quality management systems such as ISO 9000

• Provides evidence of due diligence & reduces the likelihood of product recall & adverse publicity

• Enhances customer satisfaction / reduces dissatisfaction

• Facilitates better understanding of food packaging safety issues throughout the organization

• Improves staff performance through the promotion of team spirit & improves staff morale and motivation through a cleaner working environment.

• A clear, auditable, global standard providing a framework to bring together all parts of your Food Safety Management System (FSMS)

• Demonstrates commitment to customer satisfaction

• Tests compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements and your own systems through internal audits and management reviews

• Improves internal and external communications

• Improves your organizations image

• Links pre-requisite programs (PRP’s & OPRP’s), HACCP with the Plan-Do-Study-Act philosophies of ISO9001 to increase the effectiveness of your food management system

• Requires regular testing of data integrity / lot recall programs and process audits

• Aligns with other management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001)

HACCP Principles

The standard approach to HACCP is that specified by the Codex Alimentary, 1997, and follows 7 basic principles:

• Conduct a hazard analysis

• Determine the critical control points.

• Establish critical limits.

• Establish a system to monitor control of the CCP.

• Establish the corrective action to be taken when monitoring indicates that a particular CCP is not under control.

• Establish procedures for verification to confirm that the HACCP system is under control.Establish procedures for verification to confirm that the HACCP system is under control.

• Establish documentation concerning all procedures and records appropriate to these principles and their application.