Why
use ISO 22000 to govern food safety management systems?
Apart from allergens and contamination in food processing we see many serious problems in food production. From sea
and farm to fork we see unsafe food handling causing sickness, ill-health and
death. Gaps in tracking the origins and processing of all
foodstuffs make it impossible to quickly stop people from consuming unsafe
food.
Ignored
and neglected systems at the origins and along the chains of food supply cause
food poisoning from the introduction of fecal matter and other
pathogens.
We
advise food safety legislators and regulators to make full use of standards for
food safety management systems to more economically assure food safety than by
inspecting output.
ISO
22000 specifies the leadership policies, processes and controls (including the
prerequisite programmes, hazard analysis and the installation of critical
control points) to prevent pathogens from entering the food supply chain from
sea and farm to fork.
Trade
associations have a vital part to play to ensure that all links in the chain
are to be engaged in working systematically for safe food and these parts are
interconnected in a food safety management system.
When the
food supply chain’s system conforms to ISO 22000 and is led by committed leaders
and is used by competent workers, we can be assured of food safety.
Cycles
of using the management system result in data analysis, improvement actions,
audits and reviews can result in continual improvements in effectiveness and
efficiency.
Learn here the
requirements of ISO 22000 and apply them to your food safety management systems
whether you operate them or audit them. This eLearning course is in two
parts and includes handouts useful to developing and auditing food safety
management systems. If you are not a food safety specialist then we
advise you to obtain training in basic food safety as a pre-requisite.
DON'T FORGET PART 2 OF THIS E-LEARNING FOUND HERE