Food Safety Management System

What is FSMS?

ISO 22000 is a Food Safety Management System that can be applied to any organization in the food chain, farm to fork. Becoming certified to ISO 22000 allows a company to show their customers that they have a food safety management system in place. This provides customer confidence in the product. This is becoming more and more important as customers demand safe food and food processors require that ingredients obtained from their suppliers to be safe.

Importance and Benefits of FSMS

ISO 22000 is an international standard intended to be used by organizations within the food chain. It contains traditional quality assurance preventive measures plus preventive food-safety measures. The purpose of ISO 22000 is to provide a practical approach to ensure the reduction and elimination of food safety risks as a means to protect consumers. ISO 22000 is intended to help organizations:

• Embed and improve the internal processes needed to provide consistently safe food
• Provide confidence to the organization and the management team that the organization’s practices and procedures are in place and that they are effective and robust
• Provide confidence to customers and other stakeholders (through the ISO 22000 certification process) that the organization has the ability to control food safety hazards and provide safe products
• Provide a means of continual improvement that ensures that the food safety management system is reviewed and updated so that all activities related to food safety are continually optimized and effective
• Ensure adequate control at all stages of the food supply chain to prevent the introduction of food safety hazards

The Food Safety Management System (FSMS) must be essentially implemented from farm to fork. A program that identifies and controls food safety hazards at every stage of food preparation through a holistic system of controls covering the following elements:

• HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system) principles; A scientific and systematic approach to identify, prevent and reduce food-borne hazards in the food process chain.
• Pre-requisite programs which are the basic programs and practices that establishes and maintains a hygienic environment. (e.g. a daily regime to monitor food handlers’ practices during food preparation, to screen staff to ensure those who are unwell are not to handle food, regular pest control regime and cross-contamination prevention procedures.)
• Efficient and accurate maintenance of documentation and records to ensure the efficient monitoring of FSMS and allow traceability of hazards to the contamination source.
• ISO Standards promote the quality and safety of food, as well as the efficiency of the food supply chain from farm to fork and help prevent diseases, detect bacteria and manage risk.

What ING do
Pre-Assessment:

• A pre-assessment audit can be described to be a complete audit of the Environment system to determine readiness of the organisation for a certification audit.
• ING provides Pre-assessment audit services to identify any non-conformity and allows company to implement corrective actions before the certification audit.
• Our pre-assessment audit results provide confidence to the company to proceed to the certification audit.

Trainings:

• Staff should undergo awareness training to familiarise them with their responsibilities for implementing the FSMS and with the overall FSMS policy and objectives of the organisation. This provides staff with the necessary skill and motivation for the effective implementation of the FSMS
• Training is one of the core strength of ING’s Business.
• ING train your organisation team to expertise their skills in the relevant fields to cope up with international standards and also explore your team to maximize their work efficiency with ING’s world class trained tutors.
• ING not only teach, also make you to understand and update to the changing world`s competition, so that your team will optimize their working efficiency and do well for the organization`s development.
• ING’s training methodology awakes your personnel skills to do their job right for the first time and every time.
• ING’s customized course structure assures your team to learn through interactive, in-depth, reasoning training sessions on-site, in the field and in the convenient comfortable aerial atmosphere.